A kidney transplantation operation was conducted successfully at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, one of the government general hospitals in the country for the first time.
'The surgery was conducted on July 26 and both the kidney recipient and donor survived well,' DMCH director Brigadier Shahidul Haque Mallik said at a press briefing at his office on Thursday.
The operation was conducted by a team of expert surgeons of the urology department of DMCH and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University under the supervision of nephrology department of the DMCH.
The anesthesiology Department of BSMMU and DMCH cooperated in conducting the operation.
The kidney receiver, Jubair Hossain, 23, and his brother kidney donor, Sohel Abedin, 21, had already been released from the hospital.
Mallik said, 'We have sufficient infrastructure for kidney transplantation for the last four to five years at the hospital. But it could not be done due to lack of taking initiatives.'
The poor patients would be benefited from this kind of treatment facilities as the transplantation costs only about Tk 30,000. Similar surgeries cost around Tk seven lakh at any private sector hospital in the
country.
Nizam Uddin Chowdhury, head of nephrology department of DMCH, said, 'To provide specialised treatment to the patients we have to
face different types of obstacles.
But we hope to conduct more kidney transplantation operations at our hospital.'
He also said that the patients who need kidney dialysis can take the treatment at DMCH which costs only Tk 200.
UH Sahara Khatun, head of anesthesiology department of DMCH, said the monitoring of the patient is very important, specially after the operation.
She said a team of expert anaesthetists is a must to handle such critical patients at the intensive care unit.
They said anesthesiology department of DMCH needs more instruments and manpower to provide better treatment to the patients.
Mahbubul Alam, professor of Urology department of DMCH, among others, was present at the press briefing.
'The surgery was conducted on July 26 and both the kidney recipient and donor survived well,' DMCH director Brigadier Shahidul Haque Mallik said at a press briefing at his office on Thursday.
The operation was conducted by a team of expert surgeons of the urology department of DMCH and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University under the supervision of nephrology department of the DMCH.
The anesthesiology Department of BSMMU and DMCH cooperated in conducting the operation.
The kidney receiver, Jubair Hossain, 23, and his brother kidney donor, Sohel Abedin, 21, had already been released from the hospital.
Mallik said, 'We have sufficient infrastructure for kidney transplantation for the last four to five years at the hospital. But it could not be done due to lack of taking initiatives.'
The poor patients would be benefited from this kind of treatment facilities as the transplantation costs only about Tk 30,000. Similar surgeries cost around Tk seven lakh at any private sector hospital in the
country.
Nizam Uddin Chowdhury, head of nephrology department of DMCH, said, 'To provide specialised treatment to the patients we have to
face different types of obstacles.
But we hope to conduct more kidney transplantation operations at our hospital.'
He also said that the patients who need kidney dialysis can take the treatment at DMCH which costs only Tk 200.
UH Sahara Khatun, head of anesthesiology department of DMCH, said the monitoring of the patient is very important, specially after the operation.
She said a team of expert anaesthetists is a must to handle such critical patients at the intensive care unit.
They said anesthesiology department of DMCH needs more instruments and manpower to provide better treatment to the patients.
Mahbubul Alam, professor of Urology department of DMCH, among others, was present at the press briefing.
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