SCB attains milestone in renal transplant surgery

The kidney transplant unit of SCB Medical College performed the 100th kidney transplantation in its hospital here today.
This milestone was achieved in four years after the first renal transplantation done here on March 19, 2012.
The hospital's urology department head Prof Datteswar Hota said the unit is the only government setup in eastern India to have achieved this landmark and he plans to perform 100 more kidney transplantation here in the next two years by introducing robotic transplant surgeries.
Asked about morbidity and mortality rate of patients who had undergone transplantation at the hospital, Hota said it has no mechanism to keep track of patients once the routine post-surgery check-ups are over after six months but there have been reports of 14 recipient deaths.

Renal transplantation programme at the SCB Medical College is only for patients from below the poverty line and is fully subsidised by the state government through Odisha State Treatment Fund. The government also provides another Rs 90,000 to each patient for post surgery medicines at the rate of Rs 15,000 per month for six months.