New Delhi|HL
Now, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital is also preparing for Liver transplant by next year. Earlier, government hospitals like AIIMS and GB Pant also started this facility at their own but did not get the expected success.
If RML emerges as a leader in this direction, it will be nothing less than a boon for poor patients as this surgery will be free which costs lakh of rupees. RML is going to start the facility of liver transplant in the hospital after June next year. For this, a team of doctors of the hospital is undergoing training at ILBS (Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences).
RML is going to start a liver transplant facility in the hospital after June next year. For this, a team of doctors of the hospital is undergoing training at ILBS (Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences).
Dr. A.K.Singh Rana, Prof. & Head of Department, Department of Surgery and Organ Transplant at ABVIMS and RML Hospital, said that RML is ready to start the transplant as soon as the training is complete. Four RML surgeons – Dr Devdutt Poddar, Dr Nitin Aggarwal, Dr Gyan Ranjan and Dr Pinaki are undergoing liver transplant training at ILBS. Apart from this, two doctors from RML’s anaesthesia department are also part of this team.
The first kidney transplant was performed by RML on 10 May 2011. Start of liver transplant there will be a big gift for the patients. Actually, this transplant is an expensive and complicated process. For such transplant, the private hospitals charge Rs 25 to 35 lakh. Financially aided hospitals also do this operation for Rs 11 to 15 lakhs. RML being a hospital under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Central Government will bear the cost of this complex and expensive operation for the poor.
Liver transplant: Both brain dead and living person can be donors. Liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate. Hence it is compared to the lizard’s severed tail. Full or partial liver damage in a liver transplant is removed by surgery. After this, half part of the full healthy liver or a healthy liver is transplanted in that place.
Those whose liver is damaged or severely damaged, due to hepatitis and psoriasis, need to be transplanted. Most livers are obtained from dead donors. But a healthy person can also donate half of a liver. For transplant, the most important thing is that donor should be healthy. Secondly, the blood group of donor and patient should be the same. The donor must be between 18-60 years of age and the size of the liver of the donor and the patient is the same.
Liver: is the second largest organ in the body after skin. It is located on the right side of our stomach. The word liver originates from the Greek word Hepar. That is why the subjects related to the liver are called Hepato, Hepatic.
Liver weight in an adult varies from 1.3 to 1.6 kg. It is red or brown in colour. The liver filters toxic chemicals from the body in the form of bile. It performs more than 300 different types of functions in the body such as controlling blood sugar, separating toxins, converting glucose into energy, balancing protein nutritional intake. Liver makes blood in the body and it starts before birth.
History: The use of liver transplant started in 1955 in Italy with dogs. The first human liver transplant is credited to American surgeon Thomas Earl Starzal in the year 1963. Before the 80s, the liver transplant process went through many experiments, after which it was expected success and increased the survival rate.
