Yashoda Group of Hospitals has performed heart transplant surgeries on two terminally ill mothers in a span of two days during last week of February.

“Heart transplantation is a rare operation done for end-stage heart failure. So far in India, only a little over 200 heart transplants are done,” the hospital claimed.

The first heart transplantation was done on a 48-year old housewife Yerra Rani on February 26. “As her heart condition was deteriorating, we asked Jeevandan to search for possible donor throughout the country on urgent basis. Meanwhile the patient as well as her family members stayed put at the hospital hoping desperately for a donor heart. That day we were informed about a deceased donor at one of the city hospitals. We then harvested the heart of a 19 year old young man, declared brain dead. It was then successfully transplanted on Rani after a gruelling five hour long surgery,” A G K Gokhale, Sr Heart & Lung Transplant Surgeon, said.

Barely one day after this, the hospital performed a similar transplant on another 46-year old housewife S Padma, wife of a government teacher from Kothagudem. This time the team of doctors had to harvest the heart of a 30-year old brain dead person from Victoria hospital in Bangalore.

The harvested heart had to be brought to Hyderabad on a chartered flight, becoming the first inter-state transfer of heart in India, the hospital said, adding that in less than five days after surgery both the patients were able to walk on their own.

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