Renal biopsy service begins in Nepalgunj

By Siraj Khan,Nepalgunj, July 24:The renal biopsy (a procedure used to extract kidney tissue for laboratory analysis) has started from The Life Line General Hospital in Nepalgunj for the first time, and people of southwest Nepal will be benefitted from it. 

According to Dr. Parash Shrestha, Lifeline General Hospital is the first of its kind in far-west Nepal and the renal biopsy service it provides would help diagnose kidney problem that can’t otherwise be identified and can help develop treatment plans based on the kidney condition. 

The kidney biopsy can assist in determining the appropriate treatment required for the patient.

In this procedure, the sample of tissue is taken directly from the kidney and sent to Lal Pathological Lab in New Delhi for the examination and it takes 14 days for the patients to get the report.

Till date, four biopsies have been performed and the collected samples are sent to Delhi for examination. For now, renal biopsy is performed only twice a month in the hospital and patients are waiting for the reports, said Dr. Shrestha

The team of Nephrologists Dr. Paras Shrestha, Dr. Kristi Shrestha and Dr. Bimal Pandey of Patan Hospital are assigned for the task of renal biopsy.

Earlier, they had to go to Butwal, Lucknow or Kathmandu for the renal biopsy but now onwards that compulsion has ended and it will save a lot of money and time of the patients, said a patient from Rajapur, Bardiya whose renal biopsy was done in the Life Line General Hospital.