Doctors of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, are training a group of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS) doctors on the kidney transplant procedure.
Sources from IGIMS said a team from the hospital comprising three doctors, one pathologist and two nurses, is training at AIIMS-Delhi for the purpose, since Tuesday.
The training will continue for a month.
Sources also said doctors from Patna Medical College and Hospital are also scheduled to undergo training for the procedure at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI), Lucknow, very soon.
Kidney transplant units at state run hospitals is one of the ambitious programmes of the state government because presently none of the government or private hospitals have this facility.
IGIMS director N.R. Biswas said the construction of the pre-transplant and post-transplant buildings is nearly complete.
"We have also bought the necessary instruments for the surgery. The kidney transplant surgeon from AIIMS-Delhi, V. Seena, would visit our hospital on Friday and he would check the pre-transplant and post-transplant buildings. He would also inspect the other facilities of the hospital. We intend to start the procedure at the hospital on Independence Day. We have also formed a kidney transplant committee for this purpose, which would be headed by Seena. The heads of the different departments, including nephrology, urology and biochemistry, are also part of the committee. The committee is supposed to supervise the kidney transplant procedures at the hospital."?
Biswas said IGIMS was also working towards the removal of deficiencies in the kidney transplant unit of the hospital, as pointed out by the health department team, when they visited the hospital, last month.
Sources said the health department team had found that the hospital had not taken care of the separate entry system for the patients, who would get operated on and the attendants, who would assist the doctors in the surgery .
The windowpanes were also found to be broken. The floors and the air-conditioning system were also not up to the mark.
Besides, the investigating team found the storeroom and the dialysis unit running simultaneously in the same room.
They found the operation theatre ill equipped. Operations could not be performed on the donor and the recipient in the same operation theatre. This is a very important requirement for kidney transplant operations. It becomes difficult for doctors to proceed with the operation if the donor and the recipient are not in the same room, when they are being operated on. Conducting the operation separately could create problems because this increases the chance of infections.
"The deficiencies are minor. We are working on removing them at the soonest. We are expecting another visit by the health department officials before the inauguration of the kidney transplant facility. The facility would be only be started with their consent," added Biswas.
