𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭𝟮𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗟𝗘 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹!!

OCT 11th 2023- The Department of Cardio Vascular & Thoracic Surgery & Cardiac Anesthesiology have successfully performed the 11th and 12th heart transplants at KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Center, Belagavi. The recipients are young patients aged 18 and 23 hailing from Jamkhandi and Hukkeri. KLES Hospital has emerged as the only “Multi-Organ Transplant Centre” of North Karnataka which is successfully performing Heart, Liver, Kidney transplants. One of the donor heart was retrieved from SDM College of Medical Sciences, Dharwad while the other was from KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital & MRC, Belagavi. The teams of intensivists, transplant coordinators, State Organ Tissue & Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) are to be applauded for their networking, coordination and herculean efforts to maintain and facilitate donor retrieval. The police and our ambulance service have extended tremendous support to bring heart from SDM Hospital Dharwad to Belagavi in a record time of 55 mins. Congratulations to Dr Saldanha and the team of healthcare professionals and support staff at the hospital. I wish the patients speedy recovery & best of luck in their future studies. A special thanks to the family members who donated the organs for saving the life of a person who are unknown to them. It is a supreme sacrifice.The heart transplant is done free of cost for needy patients of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families under Arogya Karnataka-Ayusman Bharath Scheme. Heart Transplant which costs Rs. 25-30 lakh in metros is offered at a least cost of Rs. 10 lakh only. I am happy that more and more people have realized the importance of organ donation & are coming forward to donate organs. So far the hospital has successfully performed 9 liver transplants, 76 Kidney Transplants, 80 corneal transplants. Our KLE-Rotary Skin Bank has supplied skins to far off places like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bengaluru.#klesociety#healthcare#hearttransplant#organtransplant#OrganDonation