The Hindu | Renal transplants at Government Hospital touch the 1000-mark The Hindu For hospital authorities and nephrologist MA Muthusethupathi who did the first transplant surgery 25 years ago on July 10, 1987 at the hospital, it is time to retrospect. “It is almost 25 years [since the programme was started] and 1000 is a good ... Once capital of illegal kidney trade, Chennai now a pioneer in transplants |