Ahmedabad: City based CIMS Super Specialty Hospital has in a statement conveyed that it has become the first and only hospital in Gujarat and among the few in the country to perform 25th successful heart transplantation surgery.

“CIMS Super Speciality Hospital Ahmedabad has completed 25 heart transplant surgeries in five years, of which the last 14 have been in the past one year and the last 8 in just two months and 4 Heart Transplants were performed in the last 3 weeks of Dec 21” said Dr. Dhiren Shah, Director and Chief of Cardiothoracic and Heart Transplant and This is all due to increase in Organ Donation awareness rate in Gujarat.

The first successful heart transplant surgery in Gujarat was also performed at CIMS Super Specialty Hospital in 2016, the hospital said in a note.

The 25th heart transplantation surgery was performed on a 59 year old from Ahmedabad city, on Friday morning. “He was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, and his condition had worsened in the last 7-8 months. He was hospitalised thrice in recent months, but a matching heart was not found due to some complications,” said Dr Milan Chag, Interventional Cardiologist, Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Cardiologist.

The patient underwent the heart transplant surgery in the early hours of Friday, a day after a matching heart was found. The patient is in good condition and we wish him many happy years ahead .
The heart donor was a 32 year old Vadodara resident who sustained severe injuries in a road accident on Wednesday, and was declared brain dead on Thursday, informed Dr Dhaval Naik, Cardiac and Heart Transplant Surgeon.

“r ChintanSheth, Cardiac Anaesthesiologist and Intensivist extended its gratitude to the donor and donor’s family for donating the heart, the State Organ Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO), Traffic police of Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Anand, Dr Deepali Tewari, Gujarat government, and other stakeholders who were involved in making the heart transplant successful.