KOLKATA: Bengal’s premier sanatorium, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER), popularly known as SSKM, is all set to grow to be the primary executive sanatorium in the state to have a coronary heart transplant unit. The move, it's felt, would offer a significant spice up to the city’s organ donation-transplant capacity.
As of now, 3 hospitals — all private — have the licence for coronary heart transplants.
Getting in a position to use for the heart transplant licence, the SSKM authorities are actually busy upgrading the cardiothoracic department.
On February 21, the sanatorium had declared Dipshikha Samanta (21), an engineering student, brain-dead, after which her circle of relatives donated her organs. Her kidneys have been transplanted to 2 renal failure patients at SSKM itself, and her skin and cornea have been additionally donated. But at the same time as docs found her coronary heart in good situation, her circle of relatives, reportedly, sought after it to be transplanted to a affected person at a government sanatorium itself. But since no executive sanatorium in the state has a coronary heart transplant facility, the heart used to be wasted. According to SSKM insiders, this episode stirred the authorities in regards to the urgent wish to have a coronary heart transplant facility.
“We have began to absorb the groundwork, which includes upgrading the OT, setting up a heart-transplant team, and other steps required for a coronary heart transplant unit,” said Dr Ajay Ray, director of IPGMER. “If all is going well, we must be capable of practice for the licence in about 3 months.”
Doctors confident of taking on extra brain-death cases
Emboldened by way of the good fortune of two cadaver kidney transplants, docs at SSKM Hospital are raring to head.
The sanatorium already has a brain-death declaration committee that includes Dr Rajat Choudhuri, associate professor of anaesthesiology, who used to be thinking about pointing out Dipshikha brain-dead. The sanatorium had not too long ago appointed a transplant coordinator as well.
“A workshop on deceased donor organ transplant, arranged by way of ROTTO (Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation) at IPGMER in February had sensitised docs on mind dying. We be expecting extra brain-death declarations and are taking a look ahead to the heart transplant amenities,” said Dr Sandeep Kumar Kar, assistant professor, cardiac anaesthesiology. Dr Kar and his team, which includes Dr Tanmoy Ganguly and Dr Atul Aman, who performed a major function in keeping up Dipshikha’s organs ahead of the actual brain-death declaration, are confident of taking on extra such cases.
Though 3 private hospitals have coronary heart transplant licences, now not a unmarried such surgical procedure has taken position, because of organ unavailability. Unlike a kidney, the place the organ will also be bought from a living donor, a coronary heart has to return from a brain-dead affected person or an organ donor after dying.
In 2017, the state saw only one cadaver donation. But with the organ donation motion collecting momentum , extra brain-death declarations are anticipated .
As of now, 3 hospitals — all private — have the licence for coronary heart transplants.
Getting in a position to use for the heart transplant licence, the SSKM authorities are actually busy upgrading the cardiothoracic department.
On February 21, the sanatorium had declared Dipshikha Samanta (21), an engineering student, brain-dead, after which her circle of relatives donated her organs. Her kidneys have been transplanted to 2 renal failure patients at SSKM itself, and her skin and cornea have been additionally donated. But at the same time as docs found her coronary heart in good situation, her circle of relatives, reportedly, sought after it to be transplanted to a affected person at a government sanatorium itself. But since no executive sanatorium in the state has a coronary heart transplant facility, the heart used to be wasted. According to SSKM insiders, this episode stirred the authorities in regards to the urgent wish to have a coronary heart transplant facility.
“We have began to absorb the groundwork, which includes upgrading the OT, setting up a heart-transplant team, and other steps required for a coronary heart transplant unit,” said Dr Ajay Ray, director of IPGMER. “If all is going well, we must be capable of practice for the licence in about 3 months.”
Doctors confident of taking on extra brain-death cases
Emboldened by way of the good fortune of two cadaver kidney transplants, docs at SSKM Hospital are raring to head.
The sanatorium already has a brain-death declaration committee that includes Dr Rajat Choudhuri, associate professor of anaesthesiology, who used to be thinking about pointing out Dipshikha brain-dead. The sanatorium had not too long ago appointed a transplant coordinator as well.
“A workshop on deceased donor organ transplant, arranged by way of ROTTO (Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation) at IPGMER in February had sensitised docs on mind dying. We be expecting extra brain-death declarations and are taking a look ahead to the heart transplant amenities,” said Dr Sandeep Kumar Kar, assistant professor, cardiac anaesthesiology. Dr Kar and his team, which includes Dr Tanmoy Ganguly and Dr Atul Aman, who performed a major function in keeping up Dipshikha’s organs ahead of the actual brain-death declaration, are confident of taking on extra such cases.
Though 3 private hospitals have coronary heart transplant licences, now not a unmarried such surgical procedure has taken position, because of organ unavailability. Unlike a kidney, the place the organ will also be bought from a living donor, a coronary heart has to return from a brain-dead affected person or an organ donor after dying.
In 2017, the state saw only one cadaver donation. But with the organ donation motion collecting momentum , extra brain-death declarations are anticipated .
SSKM gears up for heart transplant unit
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