Haryana's First Heart Transplant Performed at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI), Gurgaon
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Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) in Gurgaon has become the first hospital to perform a cadaveric heart transplant surgery on a 54-year old patient in Haryana. This surgery is also rare as for the first time a heart transplant surgery was performed “bloodlessly” at FMRI.
A terminally ill 54-year-old male Gurgaon resident became the timely recipient of a 44-year old brain dead patient. Besides, the doctors also harvested the donor’s three major organs the heart, the liver and a kidney for further availability in the Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital for transplant.
The donor patient, a resident of Bijwasan in south-west Delhi, was brought into the facility on October 3, post-midnight after being referred from another private hospital.
According to Vinod, the patient’s husband, his wife had been diagnosed with hypertension close to two years ago. “Being a home-maker, my wife who was uneducated, would often miss taking her prescribed medicines. On Friday I was home when she complained of headache and soon after started vomiting. This was around 10: 30 am. She consumed some milk and juice through the day but kept vomiting each time. She also slept through most part of the day and around 7 pm I took her to our local physician. He referred us to a nearby private hospital where a CT scan showed haemorrhage and we were immediately referred to a quaternary care facility,” said Vinod Kumar Jha, a native of Sarsa in Bihar.
A terminally ill 54-year-old male Gurgaon resident became the timely recipient of a 44-year old brain dead patient. Besides, the doctors also harvested the donor’s three major organs the heart, the liver and a kidney for further availability in the Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital for transplant.
The donor patient, a resident of Bijwasan in south-west Delhi, was brought into the facility on October 3, post-midnight after being referred from another private hospital.
According to Vinod, the patient’s husband, his wife had been diagnosed with hypertension close to two years ago. “Being a home-maker, my wife who was uneducated, would often miss taking her prescribed medicines. On Friday I was home when she complained of headache and soon after started vomiting. This was around 10: 30 am. She consumed some milk and juice through the day but kept vomiting each time. She also slept through most part of the day and around 7 pm I took her to our local physician. He referred us to a nearby private hospital where a CT scan showed haemorrhage and we were immediately referred to a quaternary care facility,” said Vinod Kumar Jha, a native of Sarsa in Bihar.
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