Kolkata: Organ donations and transplant movements in Bengal are set to reach new heights with the first lung transplant in East India scheduled to be carried out on Monday night.
Double lung transplants will be carried out on a man in the early 40s, who has been at ECMO for 106 days because Covid.
Flights bring the lungs from the landing letter in Kolkata at 10.10 and the organ was immediately transported to the Medica Superspecialty hospital.
A source at Medica said the patient, who worked in an IT major, was hospitalized with Covid.
The ECMO team suggested transplants when his lungs were completely damaged.
Around the same time, a man was declared dead brain in a letter hospital but there was no match found for his organs in Gujarat.
Noto, the east zone found it fits Medica patients and allocated it to him.
An ECMO team from Medica went to the letter hospital to take and harvest the organ.
Even when they fly back with the lungs, other teams here are preparing for transplants.
Surgery began at around 10:30 and the transplant team was still in work until the last report entered.
“For about a year, our lung transplant team is preparing to take surgery and when the event is sued.
We hope everything goes well,” said Medica Group Chair Alok Roy.
IPGMER is the first hospital in Bengal to get a license license for lung transplant.
Doctors say lung transplantation is a complex, more complex procedure than the heart, kidney or liver.
“I am happy with this development in organ donations and transplants in Bengal,” said Kolkata Resident Rupayan Roy, who underwent a heart transplant five years ago.
At that time, Kolkata did not have a heart transplant facility.
“Our flight from Kolkata to Chennia via Hyderabad two days ago had a heart flown to Chennai from Hyderabad.
And now, this first lung transplant is held here,” said Roy, now on vacation in Puducherry.