Srinagar: GMC's Super Specialty Hospital successfully performs two kidney transplant surgeries
A specialist doctor and a nurse will be available 24*7 a day. SSH doctors will also be assisted by a team of doctors from Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai during the initial procedures of the patients. Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY will cover both the recipient and donor in the procedure.;
Srinagar: To provide health service to patients and their families, the Super Specialty Hospital (SSH) associated with Government Medical College (GMC), Srinagar, has finally launched its 'Kidney Transplant' procedure for the first time following the successful completion of its first two cases of kidney transplant surgeries.
A proposal regarding the transplant procedure was sent to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW), which approved the procedure by sanctioning necessary permissions and registrations in September 2021.
Expressing their gratitude, the hospital authorities said that this is the much-awaited dream of the institute to introduce a kidney transplant procedure for the patients in order to relieve them from their pain.
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In order to run the facility smoothly, the hospital has installed the latest technologies with ventilators allocated in separate rooms where the donor and the recipient would be accommodated.
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