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Cardiology
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital to Start Heart Transplants
The heart transplants will be carried by Dr Sujay Shad and
his team of doctors
 Sir
Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi has been given registration for performing heart
transplants by the Director General Health Services (DGHS).The Hospital facilities
were inspected by a high-level team of eminent cardiac surgeons and cardiologists
of India in November 2007 and upon the recommendation of the inspection team,
the DGHS has granted registration to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital for performing heart
transplantation.
The heart transplants will be carried by Dr Sujay Shad, Senior Consultant Cardiac
Surgeon and his team of doctors. Dr Shad was trained at the Harefield Hospital,
Middlesex and University Hospital Queen Elizabeth, Birmingham in the UK and
is claimed to be well versed in heart transplantation and also non-transplant
surgeries for the failing hearts. According to Dr Shad, "The Dharam Vira
Heart Centre is one of the centres of excellence at our Hospital, providing
round-the-clock care to heart patients including angiography, angioplasty, coronary
stenting, balloon valvolotomy, radiofrequency ablation of cardiac arrhythmias
and pacemaker implants. Our cardiac surgery department is already well reputed
for simple heart surgeries like off-pump coronary bypass surgeries and valve
replacements, as well as complex heart surgeries like mitral valve repairs,
maze operations for atrial fibrillation operations for ventricular aneurysms."
Having already established its renal transplant department led by Dr H Jauhri,
that has performed over 1,600 kidney transplants; liver transplant department
led by Dr A Soin with nearly 200 liver transplants, a bone marrow (BM) transplant
department with over 30 BM transplants and a corneal transplant department with
over 600 corneal transplants, it was only the next logical step for the hospital
to seek registration and licensing for performing heart transplants.
"We already have all the necessary infrastructure for carrying out all
complex surgeries in the 25 state-of-the-art operating theatres at the hospital,"
said Dr BK Rao, Chairman of the Board of Management at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
Dr Rao further added, "The countrywide need for heart transplants might
exceed 5,8000."
EH News Bureau
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