Gambat Liver Transplant Program | |
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Geography | |
Location | Sindh, Ranipur, Pakistan |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public Sector |
Funding | Government hospital |
Type | Healthcare, Liver & Kidney Transplantation |
Patron | Dr Rahim Bux Bhatti |
Services | |
Beds | 500 |
History | |
Opened | 1 January 2016 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Pakistan |
The Gambat Liver Transplant Center (also Gambat Organ Transplant Unit) is a Sindh government public hospital, located in Gambat, Khairpur Mirs, Pakistan.
The transplant program provides free liver transplants to individuals who cannot afford the cost of the treatment. [1]
Started in 2016, [2] the 500-bed facility was the first Pakistani hospital to perform both a kidney transplant and a liver transplant in the same surgery. [3] [4]
In 2020, the hospital performed 210 living-donor liver transplants, the highest number ever recorded in Pakistan. Until January 2021, Gambat Liver Transplant Unit carried out 330 liver transplants and 102 kidney transplants during the period by a team of nine surgeons. Its out-patient clinic has been catering to as many as 250 patients.[ citation needed ] It is currently the only public sector transplant unit in Pakistan that performs 6 living donor liver transplantations and 3 kidney transplantations per week. [5]
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