bengaluru after 22yearold girish name changed from pune lost both his kidneys to diabetes hardly did he know he would be able to survive without insulin injections and dialysis on a daily basis girish who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of five years had undergone one of the rarest simultaneous pancreaskidney transplant surgeries in a city hospital and is now living a healthy lifei am thankful to the doctors who have given me a new life to live a diabetes free life was out of my imagination but today i am totally off insulin and have got rid of dialysis due to successful pancreas and kidney transplant and have joined back office as a kitchen hardware manager said girishcommenting on the case dr suresh raghavaiah consultant hpb and multiorgan transplant surgeon at bgs global hospitals said simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant is indeed a very complicated surgery and we are proud to have successfully performed it while in the us and europe thousands of pancreatic transplants has been done the expertise is still not available in india it is technically a very demanding surgery and the complication rates are very high which could also be life threatening this is probably the reason why most centres do not attempt the transplant less than 25 successful pancreatic transplants have been done in the past 78 years in indiadr nk venkataramana vice chairman at bgs global hospitals said our focus has always been on providing quality healthcare to our patients we have made advancements at our hospital from time to time to match the world class medical treatment infrastructure and facilities we are successfully leading the revolution of transplant in the country which makes us the largest multiorgan transplant surgery treatment provider in india we are the only hospital which has done simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant before and this is our second successful transplant in two years in karnataka having pioneered in various procedures we aim to bring a new meaning of life to many such patients across the country