- Mohit comes from a financially weak family, and funds for the operation were raised by crowdfunding along with CIMS Multi Super Specialty Hospital.
NE HEALTH BUREAU
AHMEDABAD, NOV 3
City-based CIMS Multi Super Specialty Hospital on Tuesday announced that it has performed a heart transplant surgery on a 15-year-old from Junagadh and claimed that the boy became the youngest person in Gujarat to receive the heart transplant. This is the 18th Heart Transplant to be performed at this hospital, says a hospital spokesperson.
The transplanted heart belonged to 14-year-old Surat resident Dharmik Kakadiya, whose family donated his heart and other organs after being declared brain dead. We are very sorry for their loss, but would like to thank the family for contributing to such a noble cause for saving lives.
Recipient Mohit, who studies in class 11, was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease that makes it harder for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body for the past two years. He waited for nine months for a heart transplant and underwent the heart transplant surgery on October 30th at CIMS Multi Super Specialty Hospital, Ahmedabad.
“Mohit is the youngest patient in Gujarat to have received a heart transplant and is stable at present. It is always difficult to get the right match heart for a paediatric patient, as the size of the body and heart has to match. Luckily, Mohit was able to get an exact match heart,” said Dr. Dhiren Shah, Director and Chief of cardiothoracic and heart transplant department at CIMS Multi Super Specialty Hospital, who led the surgery.
Moreover, Mohit comes from a financially weak family, and funds for the operation were raised by crowdfunding along with CIMS Multi Super Specialty Hospital.
The heart transplant procedure was completed in three hours and 45 minutes, which included one-and-a-half hours to transport the heart from Surat to Ahmedabad via a chartered flight.
“All preparations were over even as the heart was on its way to Ahmedabad, which allowed us to complete the transplant procedure in just two over hours after the heart reached the hospital. It is well documented that heart transplant within four hours leads to good results,” said Dr. Dhaval Naik, cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, CIMS Multi Super Specialty Hospital.
We thank Nilesh Mandlewala – Donate Life Surat, Traffic Police- Surat and Ahmedabad, Airport Authorities, Impact Guru for facilitating the smooth processes for the Heart Transplant.
14-year-old Surat boy saves 6 lives
For the first time in the country, a multiple organ donation such as heart, lungs, liver, corneas, and both hands of Dharmik Kakadiya 14, who was ongoing dialysis and waitlisted for a kidney transplant, was done from Kiran Hospital through Donate Life.
- Hands transplantation was done at Global Hospital Mumbai
- Lungs transplantation was done at MGM Hospital Chennai
- Liver transplantation was done at Zydus Hospital Ahmedabad
- Corneas transplantation was done at Kiran Hospital Surat
