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Nagpur man's heart benefits Latur woman

PUNE: A cadaver heart transplant, ninth for the city this year, was carried out at Ruby Hall Clinic on Wednesday, a day after the family of a 35-year-old brain dead man consented to donate his organs.


The donor was admitted at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Nagpur and his heart was transported to Pune through a commercial flight, before being transplanted into a 32-year-old woman, a resident of Latur , at Ruby Hall Clinic.




The man was a patient of high blood pressure and was declared brain-dead on August 13 after suffering severe brain haemorrhage. His family consented to donate his vital organs, including the heart soon after.

As per the norms of the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC), the man's donated heart was allocated to the woman who had registered herself for heart transplant at Ruby Hall Clinic in May 2019.

“The ZTCC officials allocated the heart to our patient around 11.30pm on August 13. A team of five medical experts from our hospital immediately left for Nagpur to retrieve the organ and bring it to Pune. The airport authorities in Pune and Nagpur extended tremendous help to facilitate the smooth transport,” Ruby hall’s transplant coordinator Surekha Joshi said.

The hospital’s medical team boarded the commercial flight to Nagpur from the Lohegaon airport at 7.35am on August 14. After reaching the hospital, they harvested the heart and put it in a medical solution box before boarding the return flight to Pune at 12.40pm.

“They landed at Lohegaon airport at 1.45pm. An ambulance stationed at the airport took them and started off from the airport at 1.55pm. The ambulance reached the Ruby Hall Clinic via green corridor in 10 minutes. They crossed the distance of 8km in 10 minutes, which otherwise takes around 30-40 minutes,” Joshi said.

The transplant was successfully carried out by 5.30pm the same day. “This is the ninth successful cadaver heart transplant carried out at our hospital this year and 25th since March 2017,” Ruby Hall’s medical superintendent Sanjay Pathare said.

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