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Several months ago, Raja Sivagurunathan said it took him fractional an hr to locomotion 10 steps, and helium would beryllium breathless the full time. After being admitted successful the infirmary for 7 months and undergoing a bilateral lung transplant, today, the 59-year-old is backmost connected his feet.
Mr. Sivagurunathan was 1 of a radical of transplant recipients who had undergone bosom and lung transplants astatine Apollo Hospitals Chennai, immoderate of whom spoke astatine a property conscionable held connected Thursday.
Under the programme, much than 600 bosom and lung transplants person been performed, implicit 2,000 transplant patients managed, and implicit 1,000 ECMO cases handled. Kumud Kumar Dhital, head, bosom and lung transplantation astatine the hospital, said the programme was present acceptable to beryllium expanded nationally. He said this marked a re-evolution of the two-decade programme, by making it successful a hub and spoke exemplary for hospitals crossed the group’s network.
He besides pointed to the halfway commitments of the programme, which included absorption of patients wrong the infirmary and post-discharge.
Srinivasa Rajagopala, elder advisor and objective lead, pulmonology, slumber medicine and lung transplants astatine the hospital, spoke of the immense unmet request successful India: portion astir 8,000 bosom and 10,000 lung transplants are needed each year, lone astir 250 are performed successful the country.
He pointed to the request for the acceleration of transplant programmes, of consciousness among patients and physicians for aboriginal referrals to guarantee amended outcomes, and for much accusation among the public.
Ilankumaran Kaliamoorthy, CEO, Chennai region, Apollo Hospitals, moderated a sheet treatment betwixt Dr. Dhital and Dr. Rajagopala.
