1,000 kidney transplants and counting at Chennai’s Stanley Hospital

It was 29 years ago that the first renal transplant (living donor) was performed at SMCH. To date, a total of 1,006 renal transplants have been performed — 837 from live related donors and 169 from deceased donors

The Department of Nephrology, Government Stanley Medical College Hospital (SMCH), recently achieved a significant milestone, having completed over 1,000 renal transplants, including both living and deceased donor organ transplants. In addition to renal transplants, the department is also one of the crucial hubs for renal care in Chennai, providing dialysis to nearly 100 patients every day.

It was 29 years ago that the first renal transplant (living donor) was performed at SMCH. “That was in April 1986. The first deceased donor kidney transplant took place almost a decade later, in February 1996. When the first cadaveric liver transplant was performed here by senior surgical gastroenterologist R.P. Shanmugam, one kidney was allotted to a patient here, and the other to a patient at Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital,” M. Edwin Fernando, professor and head of department, Nephrology, SMCH, said.

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