Nellore: Kidney donors and recipients allayed fears over health complications after the donation or transplantation during a programme to quell apprehensions on the dreaded surgery in a local hospital at Nellore where 100-odd transplants took place in the last one decade. A father, S.K. Fakruddeen of Nellore said that he gave one of his kidneys to his 13-year-old son Abbas 5 years back despite resistance from family members and said that he is happy with this decision while pointing out that he and his son continue enjoying life.
He said that his neighbours regret donating their kidney to save their son, who later died after working for 17 hours driving an autorickshaw to eke out a living. He was all praise for the medical team for their treatment and pointing out that his son, Abbas is now studying in Class IX. A mother and Asha worker K. Hemavathi of Prakasam said that she volunteered to give a kidney to her son as she was unable to bear the sight of the boy undergoing dialysis on a daily basis and said that she does not regret her choice after seeing him healthy.
The tales of Somasekhar and Guravaiah of Venkatagiri are the same. Speaking on the occasion Dr K. Praveen Kumar, Head of Nephrology department in Narayana General Hospital said, “There is a common misconception in society that those who have received organs and the donors cannot live a long and normal life.”
He asserted that such patients can live safely and happily while pointing out that there is a 70 to 75 per cent success rate and only 11 deaths have occured in the last 5 years. He attributed the mortality to infections due to unhygienic conditions at home. Referring to the size of incision for transplantation coming down to 4 or 5 cm as against 25 or 30 cm in the past because of Laparoscopic surgeries, he said that their objective is to ensure that the patient and donor return to work in a short duration.
Urology wing Head Dr N. Mallikarjuna Reddy said that they are able to monitor patients more effectively with the help of a specially trained paramedical staff.
Narayana Hospital in-charge medical superintendent Dr Sreeram Satish said that they achieved a rare feat of performing 100 kidney transplantations till date and more than 2,000 dialysis’ per month. Dr Dayakar, district coordinator of NTR Health Scheme also spoke apart from Bhaskar Reddy, AGM.
