India, Nov. 3 -- In a landmark achievement, doctors at BJ Medical College (BJMC) and Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) successfully performed Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD), the first such procedure in any government medical college in Maharashtra.

The procedure was carried out on a 34-year-old Pune resident and mother of three suffering from End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Denied treatment at several hospitals due to the severity of her condition, she approached SGH for urgent care, said Dr Yallapa Jadhav, Medical Superintendent of SGH.

Led by Dr Anita Basavaraj, professor and head of Medicine at BJMC, the team admitted the patient on July 29, 2025, and provided 73 days of CAPD, a home-based dialysis technique rarely att...