Himachal Pradesh government on August 30 informed the House that Premier Health Institution Indra Gandhi Medical College Hospital to be commissioned with first renal transplantation unit.

Replying to a query raised by Congress member Anirudh Singh during Question Hour, Health Minister Vipin Singh Parmar said that kidney transplantation facility would be started at IGMC by February, 2019. He said that IGMC did not have sufficient trained medical, paramedical staff and upgraded operation theatre required for imparting renal transplantation. 

Concerned medical and paramedical staff from nephrology and urology department has been sent for three-month training to AIIMS Delhi and PGI Chandigarh besides operation theaters numbers three and four are being upgraded for conducting renal transplantation. Subsequently the renal transplantation in IGMC would start in February next year, he added.