Mumbai's St George's Hospital gets licence to perform affordable liver transplants
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While private hospitals charge between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 30 lakh, the state hospital is likely to charge around Rs 5 lakh.
"There is a meeting to finalise the costs next week," said St George's Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Vinayak Sawardekar. Incidentally, the transplants will be conducted by a joint team of doctors from the public hospital, as well as a team led by Dr Ravi Mohanka from H N Reliance Hospital.The hospital applied for the state licence last year and now awaits registration with the various transplant committees. "As soon as we get the registrations done and receive a cadaver donation, we will be able to start on the transplant programme," Dr Sawardekar added.
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