Srinagar: GMC's Super Specialty Hospital successfully performs two kidney transplant surgeries

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.

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.

Speaking with the Rising Kashmir, the Head of the Department for Urology, Dr Syed Sajad Nazir said, "Efforts were being made to start the Kidney Transplant at SSH from the year 2016, and now that the dream has come true and people who are in need not to go outside the valley for treatment as that involved a huge amount of money and those in need of treatment can get the transplant here at home only, the day one recorded the two procedures and were successful."

"As per the health ministry guidelines, any hospital who wants to start the Renal transplant has to avail the service of concerned specialists from a health institution to start the Renal transplant procedures, and for that, we have roped In with 'Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre' Mumbai who will be doing few initial surgeries following which we will take over from them," Dr. Syed Sajad Nazir said.

Dr Nazir said starting the Renal Transplant service had never been easy for him as it took a long time to get necessary registrations and permissions, saying that it involves a lot of scrutiny and comes with many riders as the procedure is connected with the organ transplant and organ donator.

"When it comes to the organ transplant, it is highly sensitive and the process for the procedure has to be smooth and without any malpractice to get its registration done it involved multiple inspections by the central authority from the MoHFW, and once the required guidelines were in accordance with the requirements permission was granted", Dr Nazir added.

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