Nobel started a kidney transplant service

BIRATNAGAR: SEPT. 14 – Kidney transplant service at Nobel Teaching Hospital, Biratnagar has been started for the first time in State 1. Nobel started this service by successfully transplanting the patient’s wife’s kidney into her husband’s body.

Teknath Bhurtel, 33, of Dharan-6 in Sunsari has successfully transplanted the kidney of his wife Nanda Kumari, 33, said Dr Sunil Sharma, Director of Nobel Hospital.

“Nobel has successfully performed a kidney transplant,” said Dr Sharma. Now, we run regular kidney transplant services. ‘Currently, kidney transplant services are available only in the federal capital. This is the first Nobel service in Eastern Nepal.

The service has been launched under the leadership of Nobel Kidney Specialist and Kidney Transplant Physician Dr Shailendra Shrestha and Urologist and Kidney Transplant Surgeon Dr Ram Sagar Shah. A team including Nobel’s kidney transplant surgeon Dr Shah successfully performed a kidney transplant on Bhurtel’s body last Saturday.

The team including Prof. Dr Prem Gyawali, Director of Human Organ Transplant Centre (Shahid Dharma Bhakta Hospital), Dr Dinesh Shrestha and Anesthesiologist Archan Adhikari assisted in the kidney transplant. Dr Shah informed that Bhurtel’s wife left kidney was removed by laparoscopic method and her husband’s abdomen was cut and placed on the right side.

“This is the first time that any hospital in Nepal has performed a kidney transplant using a laparoscopic method. This is the first time we have used a laparoscopic method,” he said. Teknath had been undergoing regular dialysis after both his kidneys failed two years ago. According to Dr Shrestha, a kidney transplant physician, the health condition of both the husband and wife is normal after the kidney transplant.

“Once the kidney transplant is successful, he doesn’t have to undergo dialysis, he goes back to his normal routine,” he said. According to Dr Rajesh Nepal, director of Nobel Hospital, Nobel had applied for permission to operate a kidney transplant service in Bhadra 2076 (Aug/Sept 2019).

Nobel has been granted permission for a kidney transplant, according to a July 17 decision by the Department of Health Services’ Organ Transplant Coordinating Committee. Kidney transplants are performed in patients with complete ‘failure’ of both kidneys. Since Nobel launched the service, patients with kidney failure in eastern Nepal have been relieved.