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Green Corridor created between Indraprastha Apollo Hospital and Fortis Escorts Heat Institute, New Delhi covering a distance of 3.6 kilometers in 3.28 minutes
New Delhi, November 12th 2018 :
A team of doctors, led by Dr Z S Meharwal, Executive Director and Head of the Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery, VAD & Heart Transplantation Program, FEHI performed FEHI’s 11th heart transplant on a 35-year-old male from Delhi, who had been suffering from advanced heart failure. The heart had been harvested from a 30-year-old male, diagnosed as GB syndrome and had been declared brain dead at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi.
FEHI received a call from NOTTO saying that a potential donor is available at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. Team FEHI coordinated with Dr. Suresh Badhan, Consultant-Coordination, NOTTO and after his confirmation the harvesting team left for the heart retrieval. The team after assessing the condition of the heart retrieved the heart and a green corridor was created from Indraprastha Apollo Hospital to FEHI, covering a distance of 3.6 kilometers in 3.28 minutes. The surgery went well and patient is stable and will be off ventilation soon.
According to Dr Vishal Rastogi, Head, Heart Failure Program, FEHI the 34-year-old male, was diagnosed with DCMP (Dilated Cardiomyopathy) EF-15% and had been admitted to FEHI with conditions of heart failure. He was recommended an Advance Heart Failure Treatment at FEHI.
Speaking on the condition of the patient, Dr Z S Meharwal, Executive Director and Head of the Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery, VAD & Heart Transplantation Program, FEHI said, “A heart transplant is required for patients where all the treatment fails. This patient developed symptoms of heart transplant at such a young age which progressed to advanced heart failure. Optimum timing of surgery (heart transplant) is very important in these patients for good outcome before multi-organ dysfunction sets in. We are grateful to NOTTO for their continuous support for organ donation and transplant program. We are also grateful for the immense support received from Traffic police of Bangalore, Delhi, Airport Authority of India and Airlines to minimize the transport time.”
Dr Kousar Ali Shah, Zonal Director, FEHI, said, “Our first heart transplant took place in January 2015. Over the past three and a half years, we have come a long way and this is the 11th Heart Transplant happened in FEHI. It is a complicated process, which involves co – ordination and synchronization with different stakeholders. We receive support from NOTTO, our clinicians and nursing staff, the police and traffic authorities – who play an imperative role in making each transplant a reality. As of today, we have a team of almost 40 people under our “Advanced Heart Failure” program, who work on protocol from heart retrieval to heart transplant.”
In India approximately 210,000 patients are waiting for transplants out of which only 8000 patients are able to get a donor. In spite of the Human Organ Transplant Act 1994, cadaveric transplant are still limited in number. The cadaver organ donation varies from 0.26 per million population to a maximum of 1 per million population in few states. The Fortis ‘More to Give’ campaign is part of the commitment towards the cause of creating awareness around organ donation. The objective is to generate a dialogue about the cause of organ donation by taking it to the streets of India where the common person can show their support for the cause.
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