The Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) would organise a scientific seminar to mark the ‘Organ Donation Day’ on November 28.
The seminar to be organised in the KIIT University auditorium would be attended by the AIIMS’ noted kidney transplant surgeon Prof Sandeep Guleria. Prof Guleria started deceased donor transplantation in 1994 under the leadership of Prof SC Dash, the then Nephrology HOD of the AIIMS, New Delhi.
Dr Guleria is the only surgeon in India who has done simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPK) to cure diabetes and kidney failure.
Similarly, Prof NK Mehera, HOD of Immunogenetics and Transplant Immunology, AIIMS, Prof Amit Dinda, president of the Indian Society of Transplant Pathology, AIIMS and Prof SC Dash, KIMS director would attend.
The KIMS authorities have invited physicians, nephrologists, transplant surgeons, urologists, students, journalists and citizens to join participate in the discussions.