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Nov 22, 2011 News
The Balwant Singh Hospital situated on East Street, Georgetown, will once again open up its doors to offer kidney transplants to the public. Surgeries are scheduled for next month.
The private hospital with the direct support from renowned surgeon, Dr. Rahul Jindal of the Walter Reed Medical Centre in Washington D. C., has been able to provide the Guyanese public with the much needed renal care service with transplants successfully being introduced earlier this year.
The collaboration with the private institution, Dr Jindal told this newspaper is expected to remain a sustained one. The expert doctor who hails from India had initially offered his services to Guyana’s premier public health institution, the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where a number of successful transplants had been undertaken under his direct supervision.
However, circumstances saw the public hospital bringing the transplant programme reportedly to a temporary halt, thereby causing Dr. Jindal to divert his expert skills to the private hospital.
And given the success that has been yielded since the renewed collaboration, the Balwant Singh Hospital, which operates under the slogan ‘Best health care in Guyana at unbeatable prices’, is once again urging members of the public to take advantage of the kidney transplant service it offers.
An advertisement published in the yesterday’s edition of this newspaper states that “patients requiring such transplants please contact the hospital for further information.”
In May of this year two transplants were undertaken at the private hospital. Dr Jindal was then ably assisted by a team of about nine critically acclaimed professionals, including a nephrologist, an anaesthesiologist and other surgeons from the United States. The renal failure patients were both males in their 50s who had received the crucial organs from family members.
According to Dr. Jindal, the transplant operations were each conducted during the course of a day and were in fact quite intense procedures. “We have to start with the donor and that takes about three and a half to four hours. Then that is staggered a bit and the other operation starts.
These are two operations in two operating rooms…There is only one chance for transplant because if something goes wrong, well that’s it.”
However, there was little chance of something going wrong as the patients were thoroughly screened prior to their operations to ascertain whether they could become vulnerable to risk factors.
A third patient should have been operated on then but reports are that he was not quite ready. “It’s not just any one that comes in with kidney failure that we can do the transplant on…We can’t do the transplant just like that; not only do they need the donor but there is also need for investigation such as laboratory work, x-rays and they have to be screened for heart conditions and so on,” Dr. Jindal explained.
During that visit other kidney related operations including Vascular Access and Peritoneal Dialysis were completed. In fact a total of 12 operations, in addition to the transplants were completed over a five-day period.
According to Dr Jindal a total of 64 patients were screened; seven of them were suffering from kidney failure. Three of the patients screened were in their 20s and already had donors and were being prepared for surgery at a later date.
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