If all goes as planned, the PGI, Chandigarh, will get India's first National Transplant Centre (NTC) soon. The one-of-its-kind transplant centre will give the country its many firsts, including organ sharing and transport across the country, and procedures like full face and penile transplants. The proposal for the Rs 1,000-crore NTC has already been tabled before the board of PGI directors.
According to the proposal, the seven-storeyed NTC will be constructed at Sarangpur near the PGI where 50 acres of land has already been allotted to the institute. The NTC will have a two-storeyed underground parking and will make available facilities like air ambulance and road transport of organs.
Talking to The Tribune, Dr Yogesh Chawla, Director, PGI, said, “Having a National Transplant Centre is the need of the hour in our country. The PGI has been doing multi-organ transplants for years now. Establishment of the NTC is the next logical step.”
A brainchild of Dr Arunanshu Behera, Head of the Department of General Surgery, PGI, the NTC will have each floor dedicated to a particular organ transplant - kidney, liver, pancreas, lungs, heart, bone marrow and reconstructive transplant, informed officials of the PGI.
The NTC will also offer stem cell and cellular transplant, islet transplant and hepatocyte transplant.
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