Scientist, who underwent kidney transplant, vows to help other patients
in their last stage.
For the 37-year-old scientist Anil Jadhav, it's a rebirth of sorts. Having undergone a kidney transplant only last week, Jadhav is readying for the World Kidney Day on March 8, when he shall take up the cause of cadaver donation. While thanking his mother for donating her kidney and saving him the painful dialysis procedure, Jadhav has vowed to help other kidney patients in their last stage.
Jadhav, who is recuperating at PD Hinduja hospital, recalled how he was all set to fly for Germany in 2009 when he suffered a kidney failure. Ever since, he had had to undergo dialysis twice a week.
"After three years, I am feeling free and now can complete my thesis," said Jadhav, the Pune resident who was operated on February 29 under the Below Poverty Line scheme. "In the past three years, I couldn't work as I also had hypertension and would feel giddy. As I didn't have money, I missed many of my dialysis sessions too."
Stating that over a lakh patients with last-stage kidney disease were being added to the existing cases each year, Jadhav's consultant nephrologist and transplant physician Dr Jatin Kothari said, "If patients like him, who must undergo tedious dialysis daily, it is high time we encouraged cadaver donations in the city.
With his monthly income being less than Rs2,000, we hope he gets funding for his medicines too."
As per the data collected by the BMC, there are 200 patients per every 10,00,000, implying that renal failure hits 23,000 people, with each of them requiring 12 dialysis sessions a month.
India is 17th on the list of conversion of cadavers to organ donors. One of the biggest problems is lack of awareness about the procedure. Mumbai has 110 dialysis centres equipped to perform 40,000 dialysis procedures a month. Apart from this, there are 2,000 patients with End Stage Renal Disease on Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre's waiting list. These are patients who cannot find a matching kidney donor within their own family and are waiting for a cadaver donation. It takes anywhere from two years to five years for a patient to receive a kidney.
The chief causes of kidney disease — diabetes and hypertension — are on the rise in Mumbai. According to data collected by the BMC, there are 200 patients per 10,00,000 population. This means there are 23,000 people in Mumbai suffering from renal failure. Each of these patients requires dialysis 12 times a month.
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