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NU Hospitals, established in the year 1999 by renowned Urologist Dr. Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, as a super-specialty quaternary care hospital dedicated for Kidney care. Dr. Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy is the founder and chairman of NU Hospitals and recipient of Dr. B. C. Roy Award. Later the hospital is joined by Dr. Prasanna Venkatesh.
For the 1st Time in the World, MIOT Hospitals Performed an Across-Blood Group Kidney Transplantation in a recipient with the Bombay O Blood Group. Due to his Bombay O blood group, he could receive blood or organs only from someone with the same blood group, which is very rare and prevalent in only 1 in 10,000 people in India.
The hospital has performed India's first successful split and auxiliary liver transplant, and the first combined heart and kidney transplant. [1] In August 2015, IHH Healthcare announced the acquisition of 73.4% stake in Hyderabad-based GE Medical Associates Pvt Ltd, which had hospitals under the brand Global Hospitals, for ₹ 1,280 crore.
In 2019, the Government of Jharkhand issued a directive to take legal action against the Medanta Abdur Razzaque Ansari Memorial Weavers' Hospital in Ranchi for a suspected instance of medical negligence involving a kidney transplant; the doctors did not filter the blood before the transplant, thus the operation failed.
Priyadarshi Ranjan (born 14 November 1978) is an Indian urologist, robotic surgery specialist, kidney transplant surgeon, and researcher. He is commonly perceived as the "Kidney Man of India". [1] He is among the top 10 transplant surgeons [1] [2] across the globe who is certified of performing a Robotic Kidney Transplant. Currently, regarded ...
Kidney Hospital also known as Kidney Hospital & Lifeline Medical Institutions is located in Waryam Nagar in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. It is a hospital with approx 125 beds and staff of 200 people. It serves in department of Urology, Nephrology, Transplant Surgery and Gastrointestinal Surgery. It was established in 1990. The hospital is an ...
A year later, in 1960, the first successful living kidney transplant in the UK occurred, when Michael Woodruff performed one between identical twins in Edinburgh. [13] In November 1994, the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, in Oman, performed successfully the world's youngest cadaveric kidney transplant. The work took place from a newborn of ...
The Government of India enacted the Transplantation of Human Organs Act in 1994 to curb organ trading and promote deceased organ donation. After facing a multi-billion rupee kidney scandal in 2008, an amendment was proposed in 2009 [11] and passed in 2011 to get rid of loopholes which previously made illegal organ trading possible. [12] [13] [14]