The first kidney transplant was successfully done in Uttar Pradesh under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana at the Yashoda Hospitals in Kaushambhi area of Ghaziabad.

Under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, complete treatment of Nazish was possible without any expense. After kidney transplant, Nazish also reached his family on Bakrid.

The team of Dr. Prajit Majumdar from the Department of Nephrology and Dr. Vaibhav Saxena, Dr. Niren Rao and Dr. Kuldeep Aggarwal from the Department of Urology performed the kidney transplant.

Dr. Upasana Arora, MD and CEO of Yashoda Super Specialty Hospital, said that this has been possible only by joining the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. With this scheme, there will be no problem for the poor to get expensive treatment. We are feeling proud by doing the first kidney transplant in the state. This has been possible only because of our expert team of doctors, she said.

Sangeeta Singh, CEO of the State Agency for Comprehensive Health and Integrated Services (SACHIS), told that Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana has been made for the common man. Ayushman card is lifeline for the poor people who cannot afford the expenses of the disease. He told that so far 2.9 crore Ayushman cards have been made in Uttar Pradesh. So far 22.8 lakh people have been benefitted by this. Till now, the government has distributed an amount of more than Rs 2,700 crore under the head of treatment. This amount has been given in 80% private hospitals and 20% government hospitals.