PGI launches website for kidney patients, donors

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 10

To mark World Kidney Day, the department of nephrology, PGI, today launched a website where kidney recipient/donor pairs can register and find a perfect match.

Dr Raja Ram Chandran detailed about the website for kidney paired donation (KPD) as he shared: “In renal transplant, we intend to have a paramount addition to addressing deficiency of patients with kidney disease finding compatible living donors. On this front, the department of nephrology envisages launching the kidney paired donation programme. Paired kidney donation is a process of exchange of recipient/donor pairs who are related but incompatible (blood group being different or HLA incompatible because of antibodies), but the recipient of one pair is compatible with the donor of the other pair. The KPD is a distinctive way that transplant centres can support such pairs and increase the donor pool. The department starts this endeavour by creating a website — www.indiakpd.org — where such recipient/donor pairs can register. Nearer centres outside Chandigarh can register too, and contribute as well as benefit from the increasing pool of donors. The best part of the website is both patients and nephrologist/ transplant surgeons can register.

Reiterating the theme of the year, “Living well with Kidney Disease”, Prof Manish Rathi said: “Despite this dismal picture, patients with kidney failure can live pretty well.”