21-year-old blood cancer patient airlifted from Ahmedabad to Telangana for treatment

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that a harvested human heart was airlifted from Nagpur to Pune in an IAF plane and later transplanted into a recipient admitted to the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS) in the western Maharashtra city. The live heart, retrieved from a woman declared brain dead, was successfully transplanted into the recipient, a male air warrior at the Pune-based AICTS, later in the day. The vital organ was sent through a green corridor created by the civil administration before being transported to Pune, more than 700 km from Nagpur, on an Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft in the "most expeditious" manner, said a defence release here. The flying time was around 90 minutes, said an official. 

A separate press release issued by the zonal transplant coordination centre said the donor of the heart was a 31-year-old woman, Shubhangi Gannyarpawar, who resided in Nagpur with her husband and one- and-a-half-year old daughter.