Dr. Sarbeswar Sahariah was born on 1st of April, 1945 at Mangaldai, in the Darrang district of Assam. After completing his Primary School education in a remote village in Assam he joined Mangaldai Higher Secondary School in 1954 and passed Higher Secondary examination in 2nd division in 1961. Incidentally Dr. Sahariah secured the highest mark in Biology in the whole state during that year which helped him in joining the Medical College in Guwahati in 1962. Dr. Sahariah completed the medical course in 1967.
Dialysis is the major treatment for kidney failure. It is the medical word for filtering waste products and removing fluid from the body that kidneys are no longer able to remove.
Kidney Transplantation has become the most accepted mode of treatment for patients with terminal Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) throughout the world as the quality of life and longevity is much better as compared to long term dialysis. Since the first successful human kidney transplantation between two identical twin donor recipient pair in USA in 1958 thousands of patients underwent this procedure with an excellent outcome. The programme was started at few centers across India in '70s and presently more than 4000 such operations are carried out every year in the country. Though more than 100,000 terminal kidney failure patient need kidney transplantation every year in India the number of transplant performed are very few. Besides the cost of such treatment lack of human organ for transplantation is the biggest hurdle to provide this treatment to every needy patient. Shortage of human organ for transplantation is a global problem and even in most developed countries where 80 percent of the organ transplanted are from cadaver donors, the average waiting period for a cadaver transplantation is about five years.
Shortage of organ for transplantation is the biggest challenge faced by the transplantologist all over the world to-day. There is more number of patients awaiting organ transplantation than the people who has successfully undergone transplantation. The best source of organ is the brain dead patient in hospital following severe head injury. Though number of such brain dead persons is very high but unfortunately the numbers of people willing to donate their organ after death are very few.