The Gauhati Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) has completed its first cadaver kidney transplant successfully. Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is also holding the Health and Family Welfare portfolio, on June 22 while addressing media after visiting the GMCH said that a team of doctors at the hospital have successfully performed a kidney transplant from a brain-dead patient to two other patients.
The family member of the brain-dead patient donated two kidneys of the brain-dead patient. In medical terms, kidney transplant from a brain dead patient to another patient is known as cadaver kidney transplant.
“We are very much thankful to the family members of the brain-dead patient. The expert doctors team of GMCH successfully did a kidney transplant here and it is the first in Guwahati as well as North East India. The kidneys were transplanted to two other patients. If we start a culture of donating kidneys of brain-dead patients then it will save the lives of many people,” said Dr. Sarma.
Dr Sarma informed that the successful surgery was completed by Dr. Shashanka Baruah, Dr. Pushkar Bagchi, and Dr. Manjuri Sarma.
