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The team verified the expertise of doctors, manpower, facilities established by Jipmer for liver transplantation such as the liver intensive care unit (ICU), new equipment, laboratory facilities and the legal systems of Jipmer for organ transplantation. more-inThe introduction of a liver transplantation programme at Jipmer and the opening of the off-site campus in Karaikal with 50 MBBS seats are among the high points of the past three years, according to outgoing Jipmer Director S.
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Parija. The first liver transplantation surgery was performed at the hospital expenditure of less than ?1 lakh. A team at Jipmer performed the first liver transplant in September, 2017, joining an elite league of tertiary hospitals with a multi-organ transplantation programme. Jipmer reckons that it can perform liver transplants regularly at a cost of less than ?5 lakh, which is far less compared to the ?25-30 lakh at a private centre..