A detailed plan to transport the live heart was worked out between various authorities from police to state administration and Swasthya Bhawan to execute the green corridor
A team of doctors at Fortis Hospital, Anandapur successfully transplanted a live heart recently. The live heart was transported through a 18 kms green corridor from the airport to the hospital in a record 18 minutes time. The heart was harvested at a Bengaluru hospital before it was airlifted to Kolkata.
The team of doctors who performed this surgery included Dr Tapas Raychaudhury, Director, Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery and Dr K M Mandana, Director, Cardio Thoracic & Vascular Surgery along with Dr Saikat Bandopadhyay, Senior Consultant, Cardiac Anesthesiologist & Intensivist from Fortis Hospital, Anandpur. The heart transplant was conducted under the expert supervision of Dr K R Balakrishnan, Director, Cardiac Sciences and Dr Suresh Rao, Chief Cardiac Anesthetist from Fortis Malar Hospital in Chennai who to their credit run one of the largest Heart Transplant Programmes in Asia.
A 39-year-old male from Jharkhand, who was suffering from Dilated Cardiomyopathy, was the recipient of the heart. He was on the waitlist since January 2017. The 21-year-old donor was declared brain dead after he met with a tragic road accident on May 19. The family decided to donate his heart after they were given informed counseling on organ donation at the Bengaluru hospital. The Cardiac Transplant Team from Fortis Hospital rushed and harvested the donor heart at 7 AM today.
A detailed plan to transport the live heart was worked out between various authorities from Police to state administration and Swasthya Bhawan to execute the green corridor. The green corridor was created from the hospital to Bengaluru airport. The Green Corridor in Kolkata started from the airport and travelled via Teghoria – Baguihati – Lake Town – Hudco building mor – Beleghata – Science City – VIP Bazaar to reach Fortis Hospital in Anandapur, covering 18 kilometers in record time of 18 minutes.
Dr Tapas Raychaudhury said,“The team at Forits Hospital, Anandapur is extremely happy that we have successfully performed the region’s first heart transplant surgery. We are confident that this is the beginning of a robust Heart Transplant Programme in Kolkata. This is going to go a long way for treatment of patients requiring heart transplants in the region. We benefitted from the expertise in heart transplant acquired by Fortis group over the past decade.”
Speaking about the condition of the patient, Dr K M Mandana said, “The patient is under constant observation for next 24 to 48 hours. His condition is stable.”
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