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Why patients from the CIS countries come to India?
How is the preparation done and what is the waiting period for the operation?
Who accompanies the patient? Where do relatives live?
What is the condition of Indian clinics?
How long does the operation last?
How many days after the operation patients still live in India and when they can they fly home?
Do they have to go back to India?
WHY PATIENTS FROM THE CIS COUNTRIES GO TO INDIA?
Indian medical centers occupy one of the leading positions in transplantology. Annually, they carry out more than 6000 organ transplants, including foreign patients.
To date, Indian law allows transplants from a dead donor to foreign patients, provided that the organ has not a matched Indian citizen on waiting list in the National Registry of Recipients. These are rules for the heart transplantation, one or two lungs as well as full cardiopulmonary complex.
It is important to mention here that in the CIS countries, the procedure of heart, lung and also cardiopulmonary heart transplant is rarely or not done at all. This is due to the inexperience or peculiarities of the legislation, the lack of the necessary material and technical basis of the clinics and lack of specialists experience.
Along with the availability of technical capabilities, highly qualified specialists and high survival rates after transplantation another advantage of Indian hospitals is the shorter period of the patient receiving the donor organ.
Doctors in India are trained in the UK and the US, many of them have an impressive experience of transplants due to large number of patients. So the average survival rate after heart transplant in India is about 93%. In addition, more than 20 medical centers in India have been accredited by JCI.
IMPORTANT! The only chance for a foreign patient in need of a transplant is in India, as all European and American clinics (according to legislation) conduct such operations exclusively for their citizens. To date, many countries in the CIS and the Middle East (Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Israel, Iran, Moldova) formally send their citizens on state level to carry out heart transplants or cardiopulmonary complexes to Indian medical centers.
HOW IS THE PREPARATION DONE AND WHAT IS THE WAITING PERIOD FOR THE OPERATION?
Preparations for transplantation largely depend on the condition of the patient, in which he arrives at the clinic. If the condition is stable, after the completion of all necessary documentation, the medical center starts an investigations period that lasts 2-3 weeks.
During this time the patient undergoes complex diagnostics, which includes extended laboratory and instrumental methods of research. If the patient’s condition is not satisfactory, in addition to the examinations, stabilizing measures can be taken to compensate for the underlying disease and prepare the patient for transplant.
The waiting time for a donor organ can range from 3 to 6 months for an adult patient. The situation is somewhat more complicated with pediatric transplants. In view of the fact that for the children’s transplantation the organs should be selected not only in terms of compatibility indicators, but also in size – the donor’s waiting time can be extended.
In the process of waiting for the donor, the patient must stay in the city near to hospital.
WHO ACCOMPANIES THE PATIENT? WHERE DO RELATIVES LIVE?
In 99% of cases, the patient is accompanied by one or more relatives. The medical centers are provided with standard terms of waiting period for the donor organ for the recipient. During this time, the patient is in the guest house of the clinic, here, according to the conditions, 1 companion can be completely free. For the patient, and for the accompanying person three meals a day are provided for the whole duration stay.
WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF INDIAN CLINICS?
The clinics in India have a good infrastructure, which includes all the necessary equipment for diagnosis (including the latest MRI and CT devices for navigational 3D research) and for surgical interventions, fully compliance with JCI standards.
The departments in which patients for organ transplants are located are equipped according to international standards. On the territory of the clinic there are usually pharmacy points and nearby shops.
The guest house rooms in which patients and their relatives live are also equipped with everything necessary, including air conditioning and wireless Internet access.
Despite all this, patients coming to India for treatment should understand that outside the medical center they can be expected to have a unsanitary condition and a low standard of living for the local population. Before the trip, MedicGlobus staff respond to all the patient questions and help to organize the most comfortable stay for patients.
HOW LONG DOES THE OPERATION LAST?
On average, the procedure takes about 10 hours. The results of the surgical intervention will be considered successful only with passage of time, since it is rather difficult to evaluate the success of the treatment immediately after the operation.
HOW MANY DAYS AFTER THE OPERATION PATIENTS STILL LIVE IN INDIA AND WHEN THEY CAN THEY FLY HOME?
After the operation, the patient usually stays in India for another one to three months, after which he/she can return home. The period of stay largely depends on the patient’s condition fter transplant.
DO THEY HAVE TO GO BACK TO INDIA?
After discharge from the clinic and on returning home, the patient usually register in a medical center at the place of residence, where he passes preventive control according to the appointments he receives in India upon departure. There is usually no need to return to India.
