Health

40-yr-old Army veteran’s heart flown from Delhi to Pune for soldier’s ailing wife

The Army Institute of Cardio Thoracic Sciences (AICTS) in Pune successfully carried out a heart transplant of a 40-year-old brain-dead army veteran to the wife of a serving soldier who was suffering from a cardiac ailment.

The heart of the Army veteran was flown from Delhi to Pune in a special plane of the Indian Air Force through a green corridor.

The Army veteran, who donated his heart, had suffered serious injuries in an accident on February 8 in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind.

The green corridor was established by a Southern Command unit in coordination with the Pune traffic police.

This was the second heart transplant surgery by AICTS in a fortnight.

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appreciated the work of the AICTS doctors on performing a second heart transplant in two weeks.

In response to a tweet by Southern Command INDIAN ARMY, the Prime Minister said;

“Commendable effort. I appreciate all those involved in this.”

IN Bureau

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