A 15-year-old boy from Ahmednagar, who had a fatal heart condition, underwent a life-saving heart transplant in Mumbai on Sunday, after a cadaver heart was flown in from Surat, Gujarat. This was the sixth paediatric transplant in the city since the facility started in August 2015, said Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee officials. Finding a match for young paediatric heart patients is tougher as compared to adult patients. How the heart reached Mumbai8.50 am: Heart is retrieved from the 19-year-old brain dead donor and preserved in a solution at Ayush ICU and Multi-specialty Hospital, Surat. The preserved heart taken in an ambulance to Fortis Hospital, Mulund, where the 15-year-old heart transplant recipient was admitted.

Source: Hindustan Times September 11, 2016 18:45 UTC