Mumbai: The city’s hand transplantation began on Saturday when a 14-year-old family with chronic kidney disease in a letter contributed his organs after he was declared dead brain.
His hand was taken to Mumbai in a rented flight for the recipient, a two-year father of Pune.
Transplants are being carried out at the global hospital in Parel, where the city’s first hand transplant was conducted in August 2020.
While the former transplant in the city was carried out at the KEM Hospital managed by BMC, Parel, in August, the third was carried out two weeks back globally.
Less than 20 hand transplants have been carried out in India, with the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi have started the procedure.
A senior doctor said that Mumbai, after transplant four hands in a year, it has emerged as a “purpose” for the procedure.
The last three transplants have been carried out in the past two months.
Saturday transplant recipients are ex-accountants and amputations four times, after Losing hands and feet after being reddown in Diwali in 2019.
He poured the plants at night in the park when he stood on the wire.
“He needs a bilateral elbow transplant above.
The operation began at around 5:30 a.m.
on Saturday and could take 12 to 16 hours to finish it, “said the doctor.
Learn that donors, who suffer from kidney disease and are used to undergo dialysis for a year, suffer from intracranial bleeding.
His family donated hands, hearts and liver.
Meanwhile, the third hand transplant receiver, Jagdev Singh, recovered well, said the doctor from the global hospital.
“He has undergone physiotherapy and can be released in a week,” said a doctor related to transplantation.
Valuable bilateral transplant RS 21-26 lakh, and Singh and the latest recipients need financial assistance for this procedure.
Incidentally, Mumbai has completed 30 Cadaverik transplants in 2021 as far as 30 in 2020 and 79 in 2019.
“of the four hand transplants carried out in Mumbai, only a set of hands donated in the city while the rest came from the other.
City, “Dr.
S Mathur, who heads the zone transplant coordination center.