Hamidia hospital short of essential medicines

Kidney transplant has been stuck due to non-supply of essential medicines and supplies at Government Hamidia Hospital, affiliated to Gandhi Medical College in the capital. This has increased the difficulties of those registering for the operation in the hospital. The extent is that after the necessary investigation for a couple’s transplant, the deadline for the operation has also passed. The transplant was delayed due to the absence of essential drugs.

A patient’s wife is donating kidney to her husband in Hamidia Hospital. Both were subjected to the necessary tests for the operation, in which both were found fit for the operation. After this, a list of medicines and items required for the operation was sent to the hospital under the Ayushman scheme, but till now these items have not been received. For more than two months, the couple has not been able to have a kidney transplant.

Donor and receiver are husband and wife. The drug needed for the operation is very expensive. The matter is stuck only regarding its purchase, due to which patients and families are getting worried about the long waiting period.

Hamidia, affiliated to Gandhi Medical College, is the first hospital in the state to start kidney transplant. Kidney transplant started in September 2021 at Hamidia Hospital. At that time, the government hospital was claimed to provide free treatment to the poor from Ayushman and cheap treatment to non-Ayushman card holders. More than 35 applications have been received for transplant in the hospital. Despite this, only 3 kidney transplants have been done so far.

As per Ashish Gohia, superintendent of Hamidia Hospital, the tenders have been made for essential drugs. The transplant will take place as soon as it is received. Daily Pioneer