With three transplant surgeries every week, our success rate is comparable with that of any leading transplant institution in the world. Plans to include liver and bone marrow transplants are also on the agenda. Transplantation costs up to Rs. 450,000 in private hospitals. However like all other facilities at SIUT, transplant surgery is free.
Life long follow up and immunosuppressive drugs are also provided to transplant patients.
The first, installed in 1988, has treated over 8,500 patients so far. The third lithotriptor, based on electro-magnetic technology, enables stone fragmentation to be completed in a shorter period of time, thereby treating more patients every day. ESWL costs up to Rs. 25,000- 30,000 per session in any private hospital. The Kidney Patient's Lifeline Dialysis is the process by which the blood is cleansed artificially when the kidneys have failed.