Agartala, July 9: In a significant milestone, doctors have successfully transplanted a kidney on a 20-year-old man at the Govind Ballabh Pant Medical College and Hospital in Tripura. After the six-and-a-half-hour surgery at the hospital, Medical Superintendent Sankar Chakraborty said that a team of doctors had successfully transplanted a kidney from Munna Saha Sutradhar to her son, Subham Sutradhar. "We recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Manipur's Shija hospital.
With their mentorship, the kidney transplantation was done successfully," the Medical Superintendent told the media. Chief Minister Manik Saha, who himself is an oral and maxillo-facial surgeon and served in a key position at the Tripura Medical College, and B.R.
Ambedkar Memorial Teaching Hospital, another society run medical college in Agartala, personally supervised the MoU related and other processes to transplant the kidney. Chakraborty said that there are many legal aspects related to such a surgery and transplantation. "We completed all required procedures step-by-step.
The most important thing is that it has to be done under someone's or some hospital's mentorship. So, we started looking for a mentor in the northeast region and selected Shija Hospitals and Research Institute in Manipur. They agreed to help us on technical grounds," he added.
He said that the patient and his parents met Chief Minister Saha during "Mukhyamantri Samipesu" (Chief Minister's weekly meeting with the public) a .