Osmania General Hospital perform Life-Saving Cadaver Liver Transplants

Hyderabad : Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Telangana, a tertiary care center, has been transforming lives through successful organ transplantations provided completely free of charge to underprivileged patients.

According to an ANI report, a patient, Ravi Sundar, 45, a native of Nalgonda, was admitted to OGH with full-blown liver failure due to viral infection. He was very sick, having very high bilimbin (25 mg/d) with coagulopathy (blood not clotting) and drowsiness (hepatic encephalopathy).

Another patient from Bathina, Narender, 46, a resident of Vallampatla, Maddur, Siddipet, and farmer by occupation. He was suffering with decompensated chronic liver disease due to viral hepatitis.

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The doctors did cadaver liver transplantation as a lifesaving measure, and one is recovered and discharged, while the latter is in a recovering state. They also retrieved skin from both donors and preserved it in their skin bank for burn patients.

Recently, patients' attendees and family members have also come forward for organ donation. Receiving the positive response from the people, has also motivated the Osmania team.

Dr. Rakesh Sahay, Superintendent, Osmania Hospital, said, "In last month, two in-house organ donations transpired at OGH, and one more organ donation was also in the process. With this organ donation, we did two cadaver liver transplants, four cadaver kidney transplants, four corneal donations, and skin donations for burn patients", news agency ANI reported.

"In general, organ transplant surgeries are very expensive in PVT hospitals, which cost around 25 to 35 lakhs per case. Many of poor patients cannot offered that much money so they are coming to OGH. The Government of Telangana is providing all consumables and drugs free of cost under aarogyasri scheme," he added.

"We are also providing life-long free immunosuppression drugs for them. One good sign is that not only poor people are coming to government hospitals, but doctors are also undergoing treatment at OGH. We did one emergency liver transplantation for doctor as life-saving procedure at OGH on 29-08-2024," he further said.

Kidney transplants are performed by Prof. Manisha Sahai, Dr. Mallikarjun, Dr. Kiran Mayi, and Dr. Anand. Skin harvesting is carried out by Prof. Naga Prasad and Prof. Lakshmi, adds ANI.

The team of doctors involved in this surgeries are Prof Dr CH Madhusudhan (SGE/HOD). Dr Wasif Ali, Sudarshan Reddy, Dr Abhimanyu Singh (HOD Anaesthesia), Prof Chandra Shakar (Anaesthesia), Dr. Madhavi (Professor of Anaesthesia), Dr. Raghu (Professor of Anaesthesia), Dr. Lakshmi Narayana, Dr. N Sunil, Dr. Uma Devi, Dr. Ramesh Kumar, Dr. Nadeem, and Dr. Pavan (radiology). Dr. Rupa (biochemist), Dr. Sai Sai Sudha (blood bank), Dr. Nala Kishore, Dr. Shankar, and Mrs. Manjula, Mrs. Subba Laxmi, Mrs. Madhavi, Mr. Krishna, Mr. Babu, and other team members involved in this surgery.

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