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GPHC to host first kidney transplant operation on Saturday

Jul 10, 2008 News

Guyana’s first kidney transplant is set for Saturday at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) theatre, according to Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy who expressed optimism that all will go well.
At a press conference yesterday, he revealed that the medical team that will be spearheading the operation will arrive in Guyana today, from New York.
The patient is slated to be a young boy from Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, who will receive a kidney from his mother.
The medical operation, Dr Ramsammy said, will be led by India-born doctor, Rahul Jindal, who has worked at many renowned hospitals in the United States over the years.
Dr Jindal, the Minister said, will be ably supported by American doctors, most of whom are also Indian nationals, and nurses.
And according to him, the process is in fact a major operation in terms of the actual operation thus a significant amount of human resources are required in order to deal with two individuals who will be on the operating tables.
“We can’t say put this guy on a table and leave him; we have to remove a kidney from one and at the same time remove a bad kidney from the other and then we have to transplant the kidney while not abandoning the donor.”
The Minister said that two teams of medical experts are needful to give individual attention to each patient.
He pointed out that both teams must work simultaneously and to monitor either patient even after the operation is completed.
And while all surgical operations are intricate processes, Dr Ramsammy asserted that a kidney transplant requires far more intense input and thus will be conducted by some of the best in the field.
But in order to ensure that all goes well at the week-end the Minister said, “I will be begging people not to drink and drive, and don’t get into car accidents.”
He however, expressed confidence that once there are no major incidents occurring, the process is expected to be one of ultimate success.
The Health Minister made his first disclosure of the surgical process last May where he indicated that the first transplant has been set for July 12 (Saturday).
He had pointed out that the introduction of this new medical dimension to the local health sector will simply add to the wide range of health services already being offered.
According to Dr Ramsammy, with such an operation being available it is his expectation that there will be a significant reduction in the number of people who travel abroad to seek treatment in the event of renal failure.

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