Question

First kidney transplant in India was done on
A) May 1965
B) February 1965
C) May 1994
D) May 1978

Answer 1

Hint: Kidney transplant is a process through which a healthy kidney from a person (living or dead) is placed into another person whose kidney is non functional.

Complete answer:
The main function of the kidney is to filter blood and remove wastes from it, and thereby producing urine, which is then excreted from the body. If the nephrons present in the kidney get damaged, the kidney becomes less functional or sometimes non-functional, causing its failure, thus needing to be transplanted.
When a kidney gets damaged, its ability to filter the blood is lost and the harmful waste products remain in the blood that eventually increases the blood pressure, creating a life threatening condition. There are many causes of kidney disease such as Diabetes, high blood pressure, polycystic kidney disease, etc.
India has a history of organ transplants; even the mythical stories had evidence of organ transplantation on Lord Ganesha. In India, attempts of kidney and liver transplant were done on dogs at first. It was performed by Dr. PK Sen and his team.
In humans, the first kidney transplant in India was performed at the King Edward Memorial Hospital at Bombay in May 1965. It was performed using a cadaver donor (from a dead person) to a non-renal failure person having hypernephroma (a type of kidney cancer).
From the first kidney transplant to now, many new technologies have been developed that made the procedure a lot easier and accurate, still there is a scope of development in the transplantation process.

Note: It can be concluded that the first kidney transplant in India was performed in May 1965 at King Edward Memorial Hospital at Bombay. So, the correct option is (A) May 1965.