Overview
- Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad announced it has completed 2,000 kidney transplants, placing it among the highest-volume government renal centres in India.
- About 95 percent of recipients received their transplant free through the Aarogyasri Healthcare Scheme or the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund, reducing out-of-pocket costs for most patients.
- NIMS reports strong graft survival: live-related grafts exceed 95% at one year, remain above 90% at three years and are about 85% at five years while cadaver grafts are above 90% at one year and decline to around 80% by five years.
- The programme has accelerated recently, with the last 500 transplants done in roughly three years and four months, and the centre introduced robotic renal transplant techniques in a government setting last year.
- The urology department performs nearly 11,000 surgeries a year and completed over 500 robotic procedures in the recent period, a capacity that supports complex cases and could serve as a model for expanding affordable tertiary care.