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VELLORE: Kidney transplants may be routine these days but five decades ago, it was a different story. Very few people are aware that it was at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, that the first successful kidney transplant surgery in the country was performed. This important milestone in healthcare was achieved on February 2, 1971, on a patient named Shanmugam. It was a Herculean task, then, and two specialists had to be dispatched to Australia to get trained on kidney transplant surgery. Dr Mohan Rao, who led the team that performed the transplant, recalls, “There were three unsuccessful attempts (two in Mumbai and one in Varanasi) before that, using deceased donor kidneys. These operations were done in 1965 and 1966 by very senior professors. They concluded transplants will never succeed. CMC had planned it well before starting the transplant programme.

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