The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) hospital conducted its first successful liver transplant surgery on July 20, when a 43-year-old patient with end-stage liver disease was given a new lease of life through the transplantation of a liver harvested from a dead organ donor.Meenakshi Sundarmurthi from Tirupur received the liver from a 30-year-old road accident victim in another private hospital in the city, whose family came forward to donate organs after doctors declared him brain-dead.The patient is well and recovering from the surgery. With this successful surgery by KIMS, south Kerala too gets a liver transplantation facility, KIMS chairman and managing director M.I. Sahadulla said at a press conference here on Thursday.The organ harvesting and sharing was coordinated through the Kerala Network of Organ Sharing, the nodal agency set up by the State government under its Deceased Organ Donation and Transplantation Programme.
B. Venugopal, the chief of Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, and Liver Transplant Surgery, said patients with end-stage liver disease — due to alcoholic liver disease, liver failure or liver cancer — who have less than a year’s survival chances are usually recommended for liver transplants.An estimated 20,000 persons required liver transplants in the country every year while only 1,000 transplants were being done. Liver transplantation centres in Kerala did about 50-75 transplants in a year, a chunk of which were performed on foreign nationals, Dr. Venugopal said. In Kerala, 40 per cent of end-stage liver diseases requiring a liver transplant, could be attributed to alcohol. This was against a general national average of 16 per cent, he said. Dr. Sahadulla said KIMS would charge Rs.15 to 20 lakh for liver transplants. The first transplant had cost Rs.10 lakh.KIMS Hospital has established a well-equipped liver transplantation unit with a team of specially trained multi-disciplinary clinical and para-medical staff a sophisticated intensive care unitand diagnostic and other support services, he added.
B. Venugopal, the chief of Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, and Liver Transplant Surgery, said patients with end-stage liver disease — due to alcoholic liver disease, liver failure or liver cancer — who have less than a year’s survival chances are usually recommended for liver transplants.An estimated 20,000 persons required liver transplants in the country every year while only 1,000 transplants were being done. Liver transplantation centres in Kerala did about 50-75 transplants in a year, a chunk of which were performed on foreign nationals, Dr. Venugopal said. In Kerala, 40 per cent of end-stage liver diseases requiring a liver transplant, could be attributed to alcohol. This was against a general national average of 16 per cent, he said. Dr. Sahadulla said KIMS would charge Rs.15 to 20 lakh for liver transplants. The first transplant had cost Rs.10 lakh.KIMS Hospital has established a well-equipped liver transplantation unit with a team of specially trained multi-disciplinary clinical and para-medical staff a sophisticated intensive care unitand diagnostic and other support services, he added.
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