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Kidney transplant at Rajaji Hospital

T. Saravanan

MADURAI: The Government Rajaji Hospital here will start kidney transplant surgeries from April, according to Director of Medical Education T.P. Kalanidhi.

At a meeting with the hospital administration, doctors and nurses, Dr. Kalanidhi said only kidneys of blood-related donors would be accepted.

At present, the hospital was equipped with facilities to perform the surgery, except for the test to study the blood protein (human leukocyte antigen) type, or for the initial tissue typing to find out whether the donor’s kidney matched with that of the recipient’s. The tissue samples would be sent to Chennai, and the results could be obtained in a day. Medicines worth Rs.3 lakh would be offered free to patients who underwent kidney transplant at government hospitals, he said.

Expressing concern over the high rate fixed for lithotripsy at the hospital, he said a proposal was sent to the Government to reduce it.

To computerise the hospital administration, the staff members would be trained in computer operations, Dr. Kalanidhi said. The laboratories at the hospital would be renovated at a cost of Rs.1 crore. Of the 1,000 newly recruited nurses, 90 would join the hospital soon.

Efforts were on to install a touch-screen kiosk on the premises, and closed-circuit cameras would be fixed in the casualty, paediatric and labour wards and the intensive care unit to prevent theft of infants. The Government initiated steps to purchase MRI scanners for government hospitals. A proposal for additional buildings for the paediatric ward here was sent to the Government.

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