2 months ago
1
Ten-year-old Shreya, who had received some kidneys from ten-month-old Aalin, the State’s youngest deceased organ donor, near SAT Hospital connected Thursday, making a afloat and steadfast recovery.
Both kidneys of Aalin, measuring conscionable 5 cm each, were transplanted successful Shreya, who had been diagnosed with terrible renal nonaccomplishment pursuing bilateral Vesicoureteral Reflux, erstwhile she was admitted successful a captious information astatine SAT Hospital astatine 8 years of age.
She has been connected attraction haemodialysis astatine the Paediatric Nephrology portion astatine SAT Hospital since then.
A paediatric renal transplant team, led by Haris Chirackal, the Head of Urology, Government Medical College Hospital Thiruvananthapuram; Head of the section (HoD) of Paediatric Nephrology Susan Uthup; paediatric country HoD Sivakumar; and Anaesthesiology Associate Professor Ansar, among galore others, had taken 12 hours to implicit the surgery.
This was the 2nd paediatric renal transplant done by the team. Both surgeries were done wholly escaped of outgo by including the attraction nether the State government’s attraction assistance schemes.
