NIMS completes 2,000 kidney transplants in major milestone

The Department of Urology at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Friday announced the completion of 2,000 kidney transplants, making it one of the leading renal transplant centres in the country in the government healthcare sector.

The hospital’s renal transplant programme, which began with the first kidney transplant in 1989, achieved a unique milestone



last year by completing the first robotic renal transplant in a government hospital setting in South India. In the last three years, NIMS surgeons had taken up 500 kidney transplants.

Apart from kidney transplantation, the Urology department performs nearly 11,000 urological surgeries annually, including more than 500 robotic surgeries conducted in the last three years.