SGPGI Lucknow to start kidney transplant centre from next year

Kidney patients from several parts of the country and even from across the border, come to SGPGIMS as the complex surgery is performed here at Rs 2.5 - 5 lakh as compared to Rs 12-15 lakh in private hospitals.

Only a small percentage of kidney patients in the state are able to get timely transplants.

According to experts, Uttar Pradesh has as many as 40,000 kidney patients in need of transplants.

However, not more than 250 kidney transplants are performed across the year in the state. Out of these, 130 transplants are performed at SGPGIMS itself.

At present, 659 patients are waiting to get a kidney transplant at SGPGIMS. If conditions remain the same, a lot of them will not be able to get the transplant even next year. In fact, there have been cases where patients waited for nearly five years. This long waiting period risks their lives.

Besides SGPGIMS, Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences and a few other hospitals of Noida and Ghaziabad perform the kidney transplant.

Apart from these, Apollo Medics and Medanta Lucknow are among the private players conducting the surgery.

With SGPGIMS administration aiming to triple the number of transplants they perform in a year, there is hope for patients.

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