Apollo claims to be world´s busiest transplant center

KATHMANDU, March 3; Stating that they performed 813 solid organ transplants in the year 2012 alone, the doctors at Apollo Hospital of India have claimed it to be the world´s busiest transplant center in the world.



Speaking at a press meet held in Kathamandu on Sunday, Dr Anupam Sibal, group medical director of the hospital, said that outcomes of the hospitals are compatible to the best published outcomes in the West and the cost just one fifth.[break]



“The hospital conducted its first successful pediatric liver transplant in 1998. Since then we conducted 1215 liver transplants and over 9000 kidney transplants. In the year 2012 alone we performed 813 solid organ transplants, which makes us busiest transplant center in the world,” Sibal said.



Sibal informed that the institutes of the hospital is located at more than 14 places, offering a mix of services equipped to take care of the entire spectrum of liver, kidney and gastrointestinal diseases. “Patients from more than 40 countries have benefited from Apollo´s services.” Sibal said.



Similarly, Dr Sandeep Guleria, senior consultant surgeon at the hospital, said with the 90 percent success rate recorded, the transplant program has become a beacon of quality and hope for patients from across the world. “Our hospital is popular among a huge number of Nepalis as well,” he said, adding, that the hospital has been providing quality services at reasonable rates.

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