The Hindu: New Delhi: Thursday,
April 28, 2016.
Claiming
significant improvement in survival of patients, the kidney transplant unit of
SCB Medical College performed the 100th kidney transplantation in its hospital
here on Wednesday.
The milestone
was achieved in four years after the first renal transplant done here on March
19, 2012. The hospital’s urology department head Prof. Datteswar Hota said his
unit is the only government set-up in the whole of eastern India to have
achieved this and he plans to perform 100 more kidney transplants here in the next
two years by introducing robotic surgeries.
On the
morbidity and mortality rate of the patients undergone transplant here, Prof.
Hota said he has reports of 14 deaths of recipients so far.
The hospital
however, has no mechanism to keep track of the patients once the routine
post-surgery check-ups are over after six months.
According to
information obtained through the RTI Act in 2013, out of the 27 kidney
transplants done by then, eight had died within one year of their surgery.
When the
one-year survival rate at national level was pegged at 95 per cent, the SCB
hospital registered a poor 71 per cent. Prof. Hota, however, could not explain
as to why the hospital or the State government was not able to keep track of
the morbidity and mortality of the patients when the government bears the
entire cost of their surgery in the state-of-the-art modular OT with costly
modern gadgets.
The renal
transplant programme here is for patients from the below poverty line (BPL)
category only and is fully subsidised by the State government through its
Odisha State Treatment Fund. The government also provides another Rs.90,000 to
the patients for post-surgery medicines at the rate of Rs.15,000 per month for
six months. The patients require almost the same amount for medicines every
month for the rest of the life.
Performs
100th kidney transplant in its hospital here on Wednesday: Urology Deptt.
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