First Heart Transplant at RML Hospital - by Dr Vijay Grover and his team
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital has successfully conducted first heart transplant on a 32-year-old woman.
A team of cardiac surgeons from RML hospital and AIIMS led by Dr Narender Singh Jhajhria reached PGI Chandigarh the same evening and harvested the donor heart which was then expeditiously flown to New Delhi within two hours by dint of a green corridor arranged by PGIMER, Chandigarh, Delhi and Chandigarh police departments Airlines Manager of Alliance Air.
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