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The patient had also tested COVID-19 positive before the surgery
CHENNAI: In a major medical breakthrough, doctors in Chennai have successfully performed a live-donor liver transplant on a 26-year old, who was comatose after suffering acute liver failure.
What made this medical procedure even more complicated for the patient and the operating doctors was the fact that he had tested COVID-19 positive. This meant heightened the risk for doctors and healthcare staff of the MGM Hospital, who attended the patient and performed surgery on him.
The patient, Ragul Gandhi, was physically fit and a Kabaddi Player but had lapsed into a comatose state, two days after his liver failed. Once he tested Covid-19 positive, it was also clear to medical professionals that he had only about 48 hours to live, without an emergency liver transplant.
Perhaps in a first of its kind, doctors at the MGM Healthcare, on Thursday said they have successfully performed a live-donor liver transplant on a Covid positive national kabaddi player in coma with liver failure.The 26-year-old patient, .
Dr Shashi Sudhan Sharma The Health and Medical Education Department of the Government of India has strengthened medical infrastructure for benefit of the
Telangana scrambles to get its hospitals fixed
In the past one month, the State government has issued a slew of tenders to give the stretched hospitals an upgrade.
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While these new additions will prove a shot in the arm for the ailing government hospitals in Telangana, it is to be seen as to how long it takes for them to materialise into reality.
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HYDERABAD: As the ongoing medical crisis caused by the pandemic has exposed various chinks in the public health infrastructure, the Telangana State Medical Services and Infrastructure Development Corporation has, in the past one month, issued a slew of tenders calling for the addition of new treatment facilities, medical equipment, buildings and renovations in the government hospitals across the State.
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Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Center (SUHRC)
Established on the lower slopes of a hill, amidst the sprawling 40 acres land of Pune s renowned educational institute Symbiosis, SUHRC has been developed on a forested hill, in a discrete and quiet location. Envisaged as a Multi-Specialty Hospital to provide excellent health care facilities and a State of the art - Centre that would enhance Skill development in the Field of Medicine, the development envisions to educate and empower medical students. Conceptualized to cater to the needs of all the stakeholders, the hospital caters to the nearby population of Pune and its neighboring areas, while providing Tele-Medicine services to ensure outreach services to peripheral, far-flung and access-compromised settlements. Amidst today s context, currently, the hospital is being used for Government welfare as COVID 19 hospital.