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Nepal nationalist Durga Kami, who underwent a bosom transplant connected Monday (December 22, 2025) astatine the General Hospital (GH), Ernakulam, is recovering with ventilator support. According to doctors, the 72 hours post-surgery is critical.
“The bosom was not rejected, which has brought much-needed reassurance. One of the challenges we are facing is close ventricular dysfunction successful the donor heart. This is simply a known and accepted occurrence. Given that the donor spent respective days connected ventilator support, immoderate grade of organ-related comorbidity is expected. However, this is expected to amended with time,” said GH superintendent Dr. Shahirsha R. Ms. Kami received the bosom pursuing a judicial intervention.
By performing its first-ever bosom transplant, the Ernakulam GH became the archetypal territory infirmary successful the authorities assemblage successful the state to transportation retired specified a surgery, according to the authorities.
Dr. Shajan Varghese, main aesculapian serviceman astatine St. Joseph’s Hospital, Kothamangalam, who was instrumental successful Ms. Kami’s travel to India for treatment, said Ms. Kami is connected Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) support, a attraction that functions arsenic an artificial heart-lung machine. ECMO enactment is being provided arsenic it volition instrumentality immoderate clip for the bosom to relation fully, helium added.
The 22-year-old pistillate received the bosom from 46-year-old S. Shibu, a Kollam autochthonal who was declared brain-dead astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. An eight-member squad of doctors from the GH, including Dr. George Valuran, Dr. Paul Thomas, and Dr. Geo Paul, participated successful the surgery.
