Cuttack: After a long hiatus, the SCB Medical College and Hospital authorities commenced the liver transplant process on Wednesday.
The advanced treatment process has begun at the special modular operation theatre at the trauma building on the hospital premises.
Going by the information provided by the hospital sources, three persons have already completed registration formalities for liver transplantation. The liver of a woman will be transplanted in her husband at the special modular operation theatre of the hospital today. The complex operation process will take around 12 to 13 hours.
Earlier, the state government in 2013 had announced to set up a liver transplant unit at SCB, a year after a kidney transplant unit started functioning in the hospital. A sum of Rs 22 crore was sanctioned for setting up the unit.
After eight years, the then Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das had inaugurated the liver transplant OPD in the super specialty block on October 25, 2021. As many as 16 patients, three of them donors had registered their names with the OPD on day one. Later, the OPD was shifted to the hepatology department which was again inaugurated by Das on September 29, 2022.
However, the commencement of the liver transplant facility at SCB was hanging fire as the gastrointestinal surgery and hepatology departments were functioning without professors.
