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Robotic Donor Nephrectomy performed at Yenepoya Hospital

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November 8, 2016

Managluru, Nov 8: City based Yenepoya Medical College has now pioneered to become the first ever hospital in coastal Karnataka to do Robotic Donor Nephrectomy.

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Ms Anita (name changed) was a young lady who was determined to save her husband from the agony of undergoing dialysis once in two days. She had small kids to take care of and also had to support her family financially due to husband's ill health. She approached the doctors at Yenepoya with willingness to donate her kidney and a request for early discharge from hospital.

The Robotic Renal Transplant team comprising of Urologists Dr. Mujeeburahiman, Dr. Altaf Khan, Dr. Nischith Dsouza and Nephrologist Dr. Santhosh Pai decided to go for Robotic donor nephrectomy taking into account her request and the advantages associated with robotic surgery.

Robotic surgery is a procedure where in the operating surgeon sits on a console near the patient's operating table and controls the movement of instruments within the patient's body.

With this technique the surgery becomes very precise and accurate. That is because of the 3D imaging, magnification of 10 times and the dexterity of movements of the robotic arm.

The advantage to the patient is more than 10 times than that of a normal open donor nephrectomy. The donor will have minimal blood loss, small scar, less pain and more importantly they can resume their duties within few days time.

Lymphocyte cross matching facility has been started in Yenepoya Research Center (YRC) for the benefit of transplant patients in Mangalore which was until now available only in selected cities. Earlier Mangalore patients had to go to other cities or their blood had to be sent there.

Now since if is available in Yenepoya Research Center all the hospitals in Mangalore can send blood samples to YRC for cross matching facility. By providing this facility our cadaver transplants have increased at a faster rate.

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sylviedsa
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Wednesday, 9 Nov 2016

Very Glad to know regarding this new technology, Hats up to Yenepoya Research center we are proud of you. Only Yenepoya can effort for this.

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April 1,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 1: The price of petrol and diesel will go up by Rs 1.60 and Rs 1.59 per litre, respectively, from Wednesday. This is in line with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s decision to hike the rate of tax on petrol from 32% to 35% and diesel from 21% to 24%.

He had announced this in his March 5 Budget for 2020-21 fiscal. At present, a litre of petrol costs Rs 71.97 and diesel Rs 64.41 in Bengaluru.

The government decided to roll out the hike from Tuesday midnight going into Wednesday, April 1, after briefly considering a postponement in view of the COVID-19 crisis. 

Finance Secretary (Budget & Resources) Ekroop Caur confirmed to DH that the hike will be rolled out. 

The 3% hike on fuel tax was a key resource mobilisation measure that Yediyurappa announced in his Budget. The hike is expected to fetch the government Rs 1,500 crore. 

Yediyurappa had also announced a 6% additional excise duty on Indian Made Liquor (IML), which could help the government mop up Rs 1,200 crore. However, the sale of liquor has been prohibited during the lockdown period. Plus, hiking fuel prices during the lockdown will not hit citizens very hard. 

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Bengaluru, Mar 2: The Karnataka Department of Public Instruction has directed the School heads across the State to grant leave to students and staff suffering from fever, cold, cough and other respiratory infections.

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If any student, teacher or staff is suffering from respiratory infections, they should be granted leave. They should be allowed to come back to school only after confirming from the doctor that they are cured, the circular added.

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Mangaluru, May 13: Dakshina Kannada today recorded its fourth death due to novel coronavirus.

The victim, identified by number P-536, is a 58-year-old woman from Boloor area of Manglauru. She was tested covid-19 positive on April 30. 

A patient with TB meningitis, the woman had been treated and discharged from Mangaluru’s First Neuro Hospital, which has emerged as covid-19 hub of coastal Karnataka.

In hospital she had reportedly come in contact with patient No 501 who worked as a sweeper in the same hospital. 

With this death, the number of active covid-19 cases reduced to 16 in Dakshina Kannada. The district has so far reported 34 covid-19 cases including four deaths. 14 have been discharged.

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