Quick response from a team of doctors helped a 56-year-old patient get a new lease of life as the doctors carried out a heart transplant within three hours of harvesting from a donor in Jaipur.
“The patient is recovering well after the successful transplant,” said Dr Ajay Kaul, chairman and head of department, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery (CTVS), BLK Super Speciality Hospital, who led the team of doctors harvest the heart and transplant it.
Dr Kaul and his team left for Jaipur by an early morning flight on Monday and harvested the heart at night. They reached Delhi with the heart at 10.47pm, the hospital said.
A green corridor was created from IGI airport to BLK hospital — covering a distance of 15km in around 18 minutes.
Read more of this feat in a report published in Times of India....
