12/11/2016
----Eternal Hospital is new Heart Transplant Center in Rajasthan-----
Eternal Hospital performed its first heart transplant on 6th Nov 2016. This great task could happen only after the family members of 22-year-old resident of Bharatpur gave their consent to donate his organs after he was declared brain dead at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital. The donated heart gave a new lease of life to a 35-year-old man again a resident of Bharatpur , who was suffering from heart failure for the past 6 months.
Heart failure is a condition in which the functioning of heart goes down to an extent that the patient is unable to perform his day to day activities normally. For such patients only remedy is heart transplant. After consultation with the doctors here in Eternal and at Delhi Hospital the patient was mentally prepared for heart transplant.
Honáble Health Minister Rajendra Singhji Rathore meet the patient who underwent heart transplant to find out the condition. Addressing the press conference Rajendra Singhji said the role of media is very important in current scenario to highlight the awareness of organ transplant so that the more and more volunteers can come forward for the organ donation. He also reiterated the support of the government to all the health care centres for such noble cause. It has been the dedicated effort of Doctors team under Dr Ajeet Bana who performed the heart transplant in such a short span of time as Eternal Hospital got the license for heart transplant 2 months back on 6th September 2016.
Speaking to the press Dr Ajeet Bana, Chairman Cardiac Sciences Eternal Hospital Jaipur detailed out the whole process of heart transplant which started early morning of Sunday 6th Nov 2016 and ended at 4:30 AM of 7th November 2016 to make the transplant successful. The process of heart transplant from the donor confirmation to successful transplant started. After getting the confirmation from RNOS for Eternal Hospital to go ahead for heart transplant, Harvest team including Dr Vimal
Kant, Dr Lalitaditya Malik, Dr Abhinav Gupta and Dr Rakesh Bhargava from Eternal Hospital assessed the patient and the got the desired confirmation from the Donor family. It was late in the evening at around 9:45 PM the heart of the donor was taken to Eternal hospital within 8-9 minutes through green corridor created and well managed by Jaipur Traffic Police. Special thanks to DCP Haider Ali Zaidi, DSP Gurusharan Rao and Udaiveer Singh.
Cardiac Team headed by Dr Ajeet Bana – Chairman Cardiac Sciences, Dr Vinita Sharma, Dr Navneet Mehta – Director and HOD Cardiac Anaesthesia and Dr Navneet Garg performed the operation which lasted till wee hours of the morning 7th November 2016.