Doctors in the Department of Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery and Cardiac Anesthesiology of KLES Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital successfully performed the 11th and 12th heart transplants recently. The organ recipients aged 18 and 25 from Jamkhandi and Hukkeri are recovering.
KLE Society chairman Prabhakar Kore told journalists in Belagavi on Tuesday that the hospital is emerging as the only “multi-organ transplant centre” of North Karnataka which is performing heart, liver, kidney transplants regularly.
“So far, we have successfully performed 80 corneal transplants, 76 kidney transplants, 12 heart transplants and nine liver transplants. The KLE Rotary Skin Bank has supplied skins to far off places like Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bengaluru,” Mr. Kore said.
