World Diabetes Day: This dual kidney-pancreas transplant patient wants a sweet treat now
“I have already made a list of sweets I want to eat, starting with Rasgullas,” says a tired but happy 29-year-old Pavan Motwani who underwent the first dual kidney-pancreas transplant performed in the state at Pune’s Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. According to the National Kidney Foundation, some 700 kidney-pancreas transplants were done in the US last year. Watch What Else Is making News This is the first such transplant in Maharashtra, Aarti Gokhale, Central Coordinator for Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee, Western Zone, told The Indian Express. At Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pavan is recovering from the transplant performed on November 6. According to Dhananjay Kelkar, chief medical director of the hospital, Pavan’s donor was a young boy who died in a road accident. “Expert transplant surgeons Dr Vrushali Patil and Dr Ninad Deshmukh performed the operation in eight hours,” Dr Kelkar said. Pavan, who hails from Ambegaon, had to take insulin twice a day since he was 10 due to juvenile type 1 diabetes. “My eyesight grew weak, I had neuropathy and my kidneys failed. I had to undergo dialysis thrice a week and had to give up my job at a multinational firm,” said Pavan, a post-graduate in management studies. Pavan’s father runs a small garment shop and his mother is a housewife. “It was difficult for my son to even walk. Fore three years he had just been in and out of hospitals,” his mother said. Dr Vrushali Patil said that the procedure is painstaking and not many hospitals are equipped to carry it out. “Pavan was in a bad shape, puffed up and giddy. While the pancreas-kidney transplant is used as a last resort. In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas don’t make enough insulin — a hormone that controls body’s blood sugar level— so new pancreas can make insulin and correct this disease. Today, Pavan is free from diabetes,” Patil said. “Already I have a lot of positive energy,” added Pavan.
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