Chennai: Heart transplantation done succesfully under Dr K.M.Cherian

Sixteen-year-old A P Hithendran was injured in a bike accident on Saturday when he tried to avoid an oncoming bus. He was declared brain dead, his doctor parents Ashokan and Pushpanjali decided to donate his organs.

Doctors at the hospital harvested Hithendran’s heart, kidneys, corneas and liver. While his corneas were sent to Sankara Nethralaya, transporting his heart from Teynampet to the Mogappair hospital was a race against time. Their outside time limit was twenty minutes.

Officials at the two hospitals co-ordinated with the traffic police. ADGP (Traffic) Sunil Kumar contacted V S Manoharan, assistant commissioner (traffic enforcement), who cleared traffic between the two areas.Head constable B Mohan drove the police car at 120 kmph to transport the heart. They got it to Frontier in 11 minutes.
“Without help from the traffic police, this could never have happened,’’ said Dr Shankar
The boy's heart was succesfully transplanted to a 9 year old girl Shanthi from Bangalore who was waiting for a heart for the last one year. Now the girl is doing well and expected to be normal in about six months.
The operation is done at Frontier Lifeline Hospital, chennai,India.
After this incident ,Most have understood the need for organ donation and need for education people against cremation and brial of dead bodies without donating organs like eyes.