Guntur docs transplant kidney for 10-year-old

Vijayawada: For the First time in the State and country doctors of Guntur Vedantham Hospital, successfully transplanted kidney for a ten-year-old girl. The team of doctors completed the transplantation, courtesy Jeevandan scheme.

Vice-Chancellor of DR NTR University of Health Sciences Dr T Ravi Raju appreciated the team of doctors led by Ch Rama Krishna and P Ravi Chandra at a programme organised on Jeevandan, here on Saturday.

The doctors successfully transplanted kidney to K Jaya Lakshmi, a resident of Narasaraopet in Guntur on August 7. Dr Ravi Raju extended his wishes to transplanted girl Jaya Lakshmi and enquired about her health.

“My daughter Jaya Lakshmi’s kidney was damaged and we feared for her life. If not for the Jeevandan scheme and doctors Rama Krishna and Ravi Chandra, she would not be here today,” said K Narasimha Rao, father of Jaya Lakshmi.

Speaking on the occasion Ravi Raju said the Jeevandan scheme distributed nearly 300 organs to the needy across the State. He appealed to people to shun out prejudices on organ transplantation.

In the last one-and-a-half years, the authorities have collected 300 organs from 46 brain dead patients under the scheme,” he said.Under the Jeevandan scheme kidney, heart and liver would be supplied to needed for organ transplantation.

As many as 24 hospitals were given permission for organ transplantation, while another six government hospitals have facilities conduct such surgeries,” he averred.

Stating that though the demand for kidney is nearly two lakh, only six thousand are available, the VC said that awareness on organ transplantation in the need of the hour. He called upon doctors and Non Government Organisations (NGOs) counsel people to create awareness on organ transplantation.