Another milestone achievement for Meitra Hospital by successfully performing Bone Marrow Transplant for a 56-year-old lady

Kozhikode: Meitra Hospital, Calicut, crosses yet another milestone when its team of Haemato Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant headed by Dr. Ragesh R. Nair performed a successful Bone Marrow Transplant for a 56-year-old lady. The patient was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma three months ago. After undergoing Chemotherapy, her symptoms got subsided and she underwent Bone Marrow Transplant. The transplant was done in a Hepa-filtered and positive pressure BMT suites room while maintaining stringent infection control protocols, thereby accelerating the recovery rate of the patient.
“BMT is a very important therapy in the management of patients with blood cancers like Myeloma, Leukemia, Lymphoma & certain non-cancerous blood disorders. The science and art of BMT has evolved to such an extent that even older patients can now be taken up for BMT successfully. This transplant in the 56-year-old patient had certain peculiar manifestation known as Auto Graft versus host disease during the course, which was successfully dealt with”, said Dr. Ragesh R. Nair, Director- Haemato Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant, Meitra Hospital.
Dr. Ragesh R. Nair who performed the transplantwas trained from All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS-Delhi). He has the experience of performing exceptionally complex transplants of patients from Kerala to Northern India to across the globe from Iraq, Oman, Saudi Arabia, various African nations, UK, Netherland, Switzerland, USA, Canada and the CSR Countries. He is adept at performing adult and pediatric bone marrow transplants for not just malignant blood disorders such as a range of blood cancers, but also for non-malignant blood disorders.
Meitra hospital with its advanced facility is set to offer superior treatment for not just malignant blood cancers but also non-malignant conditions requiring bone marrow transplants. There are three common types of BMT currently being performed globally like Autologous Transplant - which uses your own blood-forming cells, Allogeneic Transplant - which uses blood-forming cells donated by someone else and Haploidentical Transplant – a type of allogeneic transplant.

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About Meitra Hospital:

Meitra Hospital, India’s first ‘hospitel’, is a 220-bed quaternary care facility spread across 4.5 million square feet area in the lush greens of Kerala. Established with a vision of creating the best healthcare delivery system in India, the inception of Meitra was a culmination of collaboration of industry leaders across the world- Patient Centric Design in collaboration with TAHPI Australia, Superior Hospital Infrastructure manufactured at KEF Holdings’ Offsite Manufacturing Facility, and Care–Path Model developed under the advice of Cleveland Clinic physicians.

In a short span of three years, its five centres of excellence- Heart and Vascular Care, Neurosciences, Bone and Joint care, Gastrosciences, and Renal Health- have established themselves as amongst the best in South India. The hospital is completely paperless, utilizes unit dose drug delivery system, and has implemented clinical pathways for key specialties. It has 7 state-of-the-art operation theatres, South India’s first robotic hybrid Cath Lab and 52 one-of-its kind individualized ICU cubicles.

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