BHUBANESWAR: The Apollo Hospitals Group is working on introducing a liver transplant programme in Odisha even as it has commenced kidney transplantation operations successfully in the State. Liver transplantation has become a key to saving many lives as liver diseases have shown an alarming increase in the population due to a host of factors. The number of people who have progressed to acute stages of liver damage where transplantation is the only way of remedy is shooting up by the passing day.But there is a dearth of facilities for liver transplantation. Apart from the six centres at Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore and New Delhi, there are around 15 other hospitals in the country that have ventured to carry out the programme. But there is still a need for more than 25 programmes across the country. “We are striving to take the facilities to the doorstep of the people not only for their convenience but also to save them substantially on costs,” Group Medical Director Apollo and paediatric hepatologist Prof Anupam Sibal said here on Tuesday.“Presently almost all the cases of transplant are done through donors in the family or those emotionally attached. Cadaveric donorship is almost non-existent”, he added.
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