100 patients benefited under kidney transplant scheme at JIPMER
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Puducherry : A total of 100 patients benefited under kidney transplant programme operated by the Centrally sponsored JIPMER here since 2013.
A release from the institute said today out of them, 51 patients received kidneys harvested from brain dead patients.
In addition to this, the institute had received three kidneys from the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (a private institution) under a scheme of sharing of organs, the release said JIPMER had performed transplant of 540 corneas harvested from dead donors.
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