Overview
- The boy received a new heart at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals after the donor was declared brain dead Saturday at Command Hospital Chandimandir and her family consented to donation.
- A chartered jet carried the retrieval team to Chandigarh with priority clearances from the Airports Authority of India and Haryana and Punjab traffic police for swift movement.
- Delhi Police created a green corridor that moved the heart from the airport to the hospital in about 20 minutes, keeping the organ within the safe window.
- Doctors said the teenager had end-stage heart failure for over a year, was admitted often, and was registered with India’s organ waitlist, NOTTO, two months ago as a transplant was his only option.
- Surgeons Dr Mukesh Goel and Dr Gaurav Kumar performed the operation, the patient is stable in the cardiac surgery ICU, and the hospital praised the donor family and Command Hospital’s Colonel Anurag Garg for key support.