KOLKATA: Bengal is set to get India's first hospital exclusively dedicated to organ transplant by 2015. The Rs200-crore hospital with 150 beds will have two air-ambulances and digital operating theatres and will come up at Andal inBurdwan.
However, there's a catch. The fate of the hospital depends on the completion of a 650-acre airport inAndal, which is expected to be done by the year-end.
"We will start our construction as soon as the first flight takes off. It's imperative to have an airport close to the hospital. The financial aspects and design are already in place. This will be the first hospital exclusively for transplant in India and we have shortlisted doctors from the US and UK," said Dr Satyajit Bose, chairman of Mission Hospital in Durgapur.
He added that at the initial stage, the hospital will have facilities for liver, kidney, bone marrow and pancreas transplant.
Surgeons who will join the hospital will be offered a share in the hospital. "They'll be owners too, and will be highly motivated in their involvement. Life is precious. I just returned from Tuscanyon Sunday. Over there, I saw an OPD for animals. I doubt we have any OPD of such high standard here. I've been to Newcastle where there's an institute for transplant. I found a Bengali surgeon there too. who was involved in transplant as well.
So why can't we replicate the model in Bengal," questioned the doctor on Monday.
"Seven people can benefit from one cadaver. Suppose a rural youth, who is married and has children, has renal failure and needs kidney transplant, is it possible for him to commute back and forth from Kolkata for his treatment?" asked Bose.
A transplant-only hospital was earlier slated to come up at Rajarhat but the plan was later scrapped.
According to Brojo Roy, chief of Ganadarpan, an organization that is dedicated to motivating individuals to donate their bodies after death, a medical unit exclusively dedicated to organ transplant is unlikely to be sustainable.
"Since 2010 in Bengal, there have been only five instances of organ transplant - one liver transplant and four kidney transplants. This rate can hardly keep a hospital afloat. In Tamil Nadu, there are roughly 100 transplants every year. Even that figure doesn't seem enough to sustain a business. This is probably why there have been no such hospitals in the country," said Roy.
Bose responded: "There is lack of awareness. A vast segment is skeptical, fearful even, when it comes to transplant. I'm confident that as the hospital grows, so will the numbers," he said.
Facilities on offer
150 beds
Two air ambulances
Digital operation theatres
Doctors from US, UK
Liver, kidney, bone marrow and pancreas transplants at the initial stage
Surgeons who join the hospital to be offered shares
However, there's a catch. The fate of the hospital depends on the completion of a 650-acre airport inAndal, which is expected to be done by the year-end.
"We will start our construction as soon as the first flight takes off. It's imperative to have an airport close to the hospital. The financial aspects and design are already in place. This will be the first hospital exclusively for transplant in India and we have shortlisted doctors from the US and UK," said Dr Satyajit Bose, chairman of Mission Hospital in Durgapur.
He added that at the initial stage, the hospital will have facilities for liver, kidney, bone marrow and pancreas transplant.
Surgeons who will join the hospital will be offered a share in the hospital. "They'll be owners too, and will be highly motivated in their involvement. Life is precious. I just returned from Tuscanyon Sunday. Over there, I saw an OPD for animals. I doubt we have any OPD of such high standard here. I've been to Newcastle where there's an institute for transplant. I found a Bengali surgeon there too. who was involved in transplant as well.
So why can't we replicate the model in Bengal," questioned the doctor on Monday.
"Seven people can benefit from one cadaver. Suppose a rural youth, who is married and has children, has renal failure and needs kidney transplant, is it possible for him to commute back and forth from Kolkata for his treatment?" asked Bose.
A transplant-only hospital was earlier slated to come up at Rajarhat but the plan was later scrapped.
According to Brojo Roy, chief of Ganadarpan, an organization that is dedicated to motivating individuals to donate their bodies after death, a medical unit exclusively dedicated to organ transplant is unlikely to be sustainable.
"Since 2010 in Bengal, there have been only five instances of organ transplant - one liver transplant and four kidney transplants. This rate can hardly keep a hospital afloat. In Tamil Nadu, there are roughly 100 transplants every year. Even that figure doesn't seem enough to sustain a business. This is probably why there have been no such hospitals in the country," said Roy.
Bose responded: "There is lack of awareness. A vast segment is skeptical, fearful even, when it comes to transplant. I'm confident that as the hospital grows, so will the numbers," he said.
Facilities on offer
150 beds
Two air ambulances
Digital operation theatres
Doctors from US, UK
Liver, kidney, bone marrow and pancreas transplants at the initial stage
Surgeons who join the hospital to be offered shares
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