Man undergoes lung transplant in Delhi; ‘first’ such surgery on post-COVID patient in north India
In a statement, the hospital group claimed that this was the “first” such procedure performed on a post-COVID-19 patient in north India.
A 31-year-old man, who had contracted COVID-19 a few months ago, has successfully undergone a lung transplant surgery, lasting 10 hours, at a private facility after the organ was transported from the city airport in a green corridor, hospital authorities said on Tuesday.
In a proclamation, the emergency clinic bunch asserted that this was the “principal” such method performed on a post-COVID-19 patient in north India. The beneficiary, an inhabitant of Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh, was experiencing progressed interstitial lung sickness, it said.
The gave lungs were from a 49-year-elderly person from Jaipur who had endured deadly head wounds in a street mishap as of late.
“In these troublesome occasions, the reaped lungs were flown down to Delhi by an Air India trip in perfect timing exactness. A green hall had just been made between the private medical clinic and the air terminal at Jaipur, and afterward between the IGI International Airport and Max Super Speciality Hospital at Saket in Delhi. A rescue vehicle holding up at the air terminal quickly shipped the contributor lungs through an 18.3 km stretch in a matter of only 18 minutes,” the assertion said.
Given the criticality of an early transfer for progress, safe entry was encouraged by specialists. This guaranteed the recovered lungs to be relocated inside the basic eight-hour chest to chest period, it said.
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