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Generally, kidney transplant is considered a very serious surgery in medical language and various technical measures have to be taken for it. Dr. B., Chairman of the Surgery Department of AIIMS New Delhi. Of. bansal In a special conversation with TV9 Bharatvarsh, he claimed that the first government hospital in the country has now been built where kidney transplant has been carried out robotically.
Dr. Bansal Said that till now robotic kidney transplant of five patients has been done in AIIMS. He said that four out of five mares have recovered and gone home while one patient is still admitted and that too will be discharged in the next one or two days.
What is the difference between manual and robotic transplant?
Dr. V.K. bansal Said that usually when you do kidney transplant manually, it takes about 10 days for the patient to recover and only after that he is discharged from the hospital. On the contrary, if kidney transplant is done through robotic transplant, then the patient is discharged in just 5 days. He claimed that if a patient has undergone kidney transplant in the morning through robotic transplant, he can walk on his own feet in the evening, recovery happens so quickly.
How expensive is robotic kidney transplant?
According to AIIMS doctor, generally if you get kidney transplant done in any private hospital, it costs around Rs 25 lakh. Dr. Om Prakash, Additional Professor, Department of Surgery, AIIMS Told that if you get the same transplant done in AIIMS, it would cost only Rs 25,000. Along with this, he said that if we look at it from the point of view of stitches, then in manual operation, about 40 stitches are required for the patient, whereas if you get everything done through robotic transplant, then the entire operation of the patient is done in hardly 10 stitches.
How long does robotic kidney transplant take?
Dr. Om Prakash Told that it takes about 4 to 5 hours to transplant a kidney through robotic surgery in AIIMS. After a small provision, buttonholes are made in the patient’s body. With this technology the risk of infection has reduced significantly. The patient experiences 10 times less pain than a normal operation and it takes about 5 days less to be discharged.