The government is taking steps to renew renal transplant at the Indira Gandhi Government General Hospital (IGGGH), Director of Health and Family Welfare G. Sriramulu said on Tuesday.
Addressing the first press conference after assuming charge, he said the State Organ Transplant Committee was looking into the modalities to relaunch the programme at IGGGH. “Various committees are working on it. We plan to conduct renal transplants at the hospital in the next two months,” he said. After the government renewed cardiac surgeries, doctors have performed 10 procedures. The Health Department had entered into an understanding with Frontier Lifeline Hospital in July to perform surgeries at IGGGH.
Mr. Sriramulu said under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, a universal health insurance scheme of the Centre, 3,188 persons had availed themselves of the benefit in the Union Territory. They received treatment costing around ₹1 crore, he added. Of the 1.90 lakh…