Lung transplantations shoot up in Telangana
The Hindu
Hyderabad emerging as new hub; procedure costs ₹25 lakh to ₹35 lakh
The COVID-19 pandemic seems to have struck the organ transplantation sector in a unique way with hospitals in Hyderabad reporting a huge spike in lung transplants. From 2013 to 2019 — a period of six years — Telangana had recorded just 21 lung transplantations. However, in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the numbers clocked in a single year was 20. What’s more, the State has already logged 43 lung transplantations this year (till August 10). What has caused this surge? According to specialist doctors, COVID is to blame and Hyderabad is the new hub for lung transplants. Such is the demand that patients across India were airlifted to the city for the procedure, which was performed at three major corporate hospitals in the city.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.