There are 20 million people in India suffering from different kinds of kidney diseases. Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre is one of the largest institutes in the world, based on three pillars of service, education and research, catering to the needs of all classes of patients with kidney diseases. It is located in Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat of India.
The institute was established in the year 1981 by the Gujarat government in collaboration with Transplantation Immunology Laboratory of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Today, it stands on the western end of the civil hospital campus, occupying an area of 15,000 sq metres and total built up area of 20,000 sq metres. Thus, it can boast of being the largest tertiary care centre of its kind in the world.
It has 400 indoor beds for nephrology, urology and transplantation. It provides super-specialities in departments of urosurgery, renal transplantation, anaesthesia and obstetrics and gynaecology, blood bank and drug bank, paediatric urology and critical care as well as lithotripsy centre.
The Institute is running successfully since then and has achieved many milestones in the process including the first liver transplantation of Gujarat state, first laparoscopic kidney transplantation of the country and second in the world, awarded as the “Best Single Specialty Hospital – Nephrology & Urology”.