Our Correspondent
In a rare example of communal harmony in the country, a 49 year old Hindu man in Gujarat has received the ‘heart’ of a Muslim youth in Gujarat.
The heart of , 37-year-old Muslim man ASIF MUHAMMAD on Monday transplanted in the body of a Hindu patient from Jamnagar at a private hospital in Ahmedabad.
In this way the Muslim man who was declared brain dead following an accident, became the saviour of Hindu person. the relatives of Asif decided to donate the organ to the needy patient.
The harvested heart was brought here from Bhavnagar city, around 180 kms away, through two green corridors in 82 minutes flat, hospital officials said.
Doctors at the hospital claimed that in a first heart transplant surgery in Gujarat.
A special green corridor of 6 minutes 22 seconds was made in Bhavnagar. A green corridor of 14 minutes was made in Ahmedabad. The whole process could be successfully done with the help of police and minister of state for Home Pradipsinh Jadeja,
“The recipient was patient from Jamnagar, and the don
or was a man from Chorvadala village of Bhavnagar district who was declared brain dead after he met with a road accident on Saturday night,” said doctor Dhiren Shah of CIMS Hospitals Ahmedabad.
The donor was operated at Bhavnagar government hospital. While the hospital refused to disclose the names of the donor and the patient due to legal and ethical reasons, it confirmed that they belong to Muslim and Hindu communities, respectively.