Chennai: A large team of heart transplant experts and the cardiac specialist team from Rela KIMS Heart and Lung Transplant Institute gave a cheerful send-off to their first heart transplant patient.
The recipient, a 36-year-old homemaker, got a new lease of life with the heart donated by a brain-dead youth, flown from Madurai to Chennai in a record time of 45-minutes.
The medical team has thanked the civil authorities, the police officers and their teams in Madurai and Chennai for creating the green corridor that helped the donated organ reach Rela hospital in a record time.
Early in November 2020, after an assessment, the woman’s family was told that the best chance of getting well again was to undergo a heart transplant surgery.
On 26 February 2021, the Hospital received an organ alert call from TRANSTAN (Transplant Authority of Tamilnadu), where this woman got a donor whose organ matched her condition and she underwent a successful heart transplant. Since then, she has made a remarkable recovery and regained her life.