Gandhinagar

Gujarat Assembly today passed a bill to give status of State University to Ahmedabad based Kidney hospital unopposed.

This bill proposes to give state university status to already functioning Kidney Institute run by Dr.H.L.Trivedi in Civil hospital Ahmedabad campus. The institute is commonly known as Kidney hospital. The new university will be known as University of Tranplantation. The University will develop programme for education and research in the areas of transplantation science and organ failure prevention. The University will conduct programms and carry out research in the areas of multiple organ and cell transplant. It will also conduct Phd programms in tranplantation immunology, renal physiology, biochemistry, microbiology. It will offer D.M. title in the branches like transplant pathology, infectious disease, trovid organ transplantation medicine. It will offer post graduate degree of MD in critical care medicine, transfusion medicine and surgical medicine. The university will also run various para medical courses and certificate courses.

The university will develop an institution for study and research. It will serve as center for cell and tissue transplantation, solid organ tranplantation, composite tissue plantation, zeno transplantation etc. The university will be developed as national referral center for research in transplantation field.

Annually more than 1.5 lakh patients are checked in this institutes which also witnesses 400 kidney transplantation and 50,000 dialysis.So far 4000 kidney, 100 lever and 3800 stem cell transplantation are completed here.

The state government is going to build 600 bed facility in 6 acre land of Manjushri Mill compound which will be known as university hospital. Government has allocated Rs. 420 crore for this purpose. In year 2015-16 budget Rs. 185 has been allocated to this purpose.

The university will have 11 members in governing body including Pro Chancellor, Chancellor, Vice Chancellor etc. Pro Chancellor will be appointed by the state government in consultation with board of governors.

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