For the past six years in her 14 years of life, a teenager from Jamnagar, Gujarat was suffering from an incurable disease – terminal heart failure. Although only a doctor can make a clinical determination of the life expectancy of individual patients, this disease gives a life expectancy of fewer than six months.
To keep a heart beating in her body, the 14-year-old got a ray of hope from a family from Rajasthan, who had donated organs of their 20-year-old deceased boy after he lost his life, sustaining some critical injuries in an accident.
The 20-year-old boy – Puran Sinh Parmar was transferred from Rajasthan to Ahmedabad hospital for treatment. During his treatment, he was declared brain dead by the doctors. This is when his family decided and consented for donating his organs and followed by this, his heart, liver and kidneys were donated. This donation helped four more people – the kidneys and liver were transplanted in three people at the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Institute (IKDRC) in Ahmedabad and his heart was transplanted to the 14-year-old girl from Jamnagar.
The transplantation was successfully carried out and the doctors said that the girl was in a stable condition but still under medical supervision. The heart of Puran Sinh Parmar will now beat for this girl from Jamnagar.
Heart transplantation is a critical medical procedure that involves the replacement of a failing heart with a healthy heart in the patient’s body, but this procedure is initiated only after the patient’s heart has a good match with that of the donor’s heart.
