First cadaver liver transplant likely in 2-month: Raj Govt

The first cadaver liver transplant in Rajasthan would most probably be performed within next two months, the state government today informed the Assembly.
Health Minister R S Rathore, while replying to a question of BSP MLA Manoj Kumar during Zero Hour, told the House that a Centre for Organ Transplant would be opened at SMS hospital in next financial year 2015-16 as 17 senior doctors and 15 nursing employees were given training at a Delhi's hospital.
Equipment worth Rs 1.5 crore were being purchased, and the cadaver transplant was being done in the guidance of a US- based expert, the minister said.

Of the 10,000 accidental deaths last year about 60 per cent injured died of brain deaths, he said, adding that there was need for a comprehensive awareness to be launched for organ transplant so that chronic patients of liver, kidney, heart and other vital organs could get benefit of organ donation under the Act of Human Organ Transplant.
He also claimed that the first cadaver kidney transplant was performed in Jaipur last month.
Responding to another question of BJP member Nirmal Kumawat, Higher Education Minister K C Saraf told the House that new degree colleges would be opened in every sub- division.

In the first phase, it would be opened in 46 divisions where neither government or private college existed. There were degree colleges in 178 sub-division but in some the college did not exist in the headquarters of sub-division, Saraf said.
Saraf alleged that the previous Congress government had opened 11 degree colleges in hurry of Assembly polls, and these were under the scanner and would be opened if they fulfil parameters.