The Management and Directors of Swagat Superspeciality Surgical Institute & NH announced adding Liver Transplant facility to the list of services in a conference held at the auditorium of the institute.
Swagat Hospital has now added Liver Transplantation to the list of advanced Surgical procedures.Although kidney transplant is a routine in some of the centres in our country, it was a long – fought battle to get the government’s approval for Liver transplant, given that it mandates a wide variety of resources and state of the art facilities to meet up to the stringent guidelines. This
comes as a relief to the deprived patients of the state of Assam and Northeast India, who have a long list of waiting patients for various types of organ transplants. Liver transplant is a very labour intensive process, which needs special attention from the specialists and frequent costly investigations in the postoperative period along with a long ICU stay. The procedure currently cost 30- 40 Lakhs in Indian Metro Cities and currently there are only 3 – 4 major centres in the country that have been doing Liver Transplantation frequently. Swagat also aims to cut the transplant costs down to its most affordable rates.
While thanking the government on behalf of Swagat Superspeciality Surgical Institute & NH Prof. Khanna introduced the team members of Liver Transplant team which included Dr. Basant Mahadevappa( Liver Transplant Surgeon) , Dr. Amitava Goswami (Gastroenterologist and Hematologist) and the team of Surgeons, along with the Team who were instrumental in the following up the transplant programme and making it a success. Dr Basant Mahadevappa is a transplant surgeon from Bangalore , who has performed over 276 Liver Transplantation with over 20 years of experience and 7 years of experience in Liver Transplant in the UK and has experience of both living and deceased donor Transplantation.
