JIPMER to roll out liver, multi organ transplantation

The Centrally sponsored JIPMER will soon roll out liver and multi organ transplantation facilities, its Director, S C Parija said today.
Parija, in a release, said that the hospital had been performing transplantation of eyes, kidneys and bone marrow free of cost.
Encouraged by the successful transplantations of eyes, kidneys and bone marrow, the institute has now taken steps to roll out liver and multi organ transplantation programmes, he said.
The Jawaharlal Institute of Post graduate Medical Education and Research will hold a special programme tomorrow to mark the second anniversary of donor transplantation programme. The families of organ donors would be felicitated on the occasion, he said.

Parija said that JIPMER had pioneered deceased donor transplantation in Puducherry and was the first institution to start deceased donor organ harvesting and its transplantation.
The first cadaver donor organ harvesting and transplantation was performed on December 5 in the hospital.

Since then, 19 families had come forward to voluntarily donate organs of brain dead patients.
So far 38 patients had received kidneys from brain dead donors in the hospital and an equal number of blind patients had received corneal transplants from the donors.
The Director said that organs and tissues were harvested from ten brain dead donors at JIPMER from January to November this year.

Presently, 40 patients were waiting for kidney transplants, 17 for eye transplants and 10 for bone marrow transplantation in the hospital.
The institution also gives option to those intending to donate organs after death by taking a pledge and this could be done on line on the website of JIPMER and those who take the pledge would be issued 'donor card'.
Parija also said that JIPMER had coordinated with the
Puducherry government, the management of the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and the Transplantation Authority of Tamilnadu (TRANSTAN) for sharing of organs.
He recalled that a liver harvested from a brain dead patient in JIPMER was transplanted in a patient at Madurai and heart valves were sent to Chennai.

A kidney donated by a dead donor in PIMS was shared with JIPMER where it was transplanted to a patient with kidney failure.
A Deceased Donor Transplantation Committee in JIPMER is supervising deceased donor programme.
The institution has an eye bank and has been performing eye (cornea) transplants since 1997. A total of 510 corneal transplantations have been performed, with 74 of those being done in the last two years.
The kidney transplantation programme launched in 2012 has enabled 77 transplantations.
JIPMER is the only hospital offering bone marrow transplantation services in Puducherry and it is the only government institution offering the treatment in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, he said.

Ten patients are waiting for the bone marrow transplantation now.