New Delhi: India’s first robotic kidney transplant surgery was successfully performed on a patient who was on dialysis and awaiting the transplant for years at Safdarjung Hospital here. The 39-years-old recipient was from Farrukabad in Uttar Pradesh. His wife is the donor. His 34-year-old wife donated the kidney. Both the recipient and donor were recovering well after the surgery on Wednesday.
The transplant was done under Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC), by a team of doctors headed by Prof (Dr) Anup Kumar, Head of Department, Department of Urology, Robotics and Renal Transplant. The doctors claimed to be the first such surgery to have been performed at a central government facility in the country.
