FIRST EVER HEART TRANSPLANT IN R&R HOSPITAL

Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi under Ministry of Defence conducted the first ever heart transplant on Thursday last. The recipient was Smt Radha Devi, 28 years old wife of a serving soldier, a case of cardiomyopathy with heart failure. This was part of multi organ donation by a brain dead patient following a head injury. The liver of the donor was transplanted to a 41 year old service soldier Naik LS Rao. The Armed Forces have an active liver and kidney transplant programme, run under The Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplant Authority (AORTA).