First robotic kidney transplant at Govt facility performed at Safdarjung Hospital - Video
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A 39-year-old man underwent a robotic kidney transplant at Safdarjung hospital here, which doctors claimed to be the first such surgery to have been performed at a central government facility in the country.
The patient, a native of Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, had a kidney failure and was awaiting a transplant for the past five years, said Dr Anup Kumar, head of the department of Urology, Robotics and Renal Transplant, who performed the surgery.
He was on hemodialysis, doctors said.
The patient's 34-year-old wife wanted to donate her kidney and were trying to get the surgery done in other hospitals.
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