The King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), carried out its first successful heart transplant surgery. The hospital had first tried to undertake a heart transplant in 1963 but the procedure was unsuccessful and no procedure was carried out ever since. The recipient is a 38-year-old male from Aurangabad, who was […]

The King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, under the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), carried out its first successful heart transplant surgery. The hospital had first tried to undertake a heart transplant in 1963 but the procedure was unsuccessful and no procedure was carried out ever since.

The donor was a 34-year-old female donor from Kalyan. She was seven months pregnant when she suffered from preeclampsia with intracerebral bleeding, leading to brain stem death on Sunday. She got married six-years ago.

Her husband decided to donate her heart to give a fresh lease of life to another patient. “It was a tough decision, but I realized that my wife was gone and there was no way to bring her back. If her heart could give someone else a new life, then why not?” he said.