This incident was happened in india by the year of 2009. Early Thursday morning as the youngest multi-organ donor’s tender heart started beating in the thoracic cavity of the country’s youngest heart recipient. In a procedure that lasted just two hours and 42 minutes, three-year old Tamanna’s heart was harvested from Manipal Hospital in Bangalore, India, flown to the Chennai airport (India), taken to Dr. K.M.Cherian’s Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Mogappair, Chennai and transplanted in a one-year-11-month-old boy, where it started throbbing again. Dr. Cherian said while inter-State transplantations had become commendably common, what was important in this case is that the father agreed to donate the organs of his 3-year-old.
Tamanna’s parents Renilson and Nisha, both originally from Kerala, were driving back home with their daughter after having dinner when their vehicle was involved a head-on collision. While Nisha died on the spot, the child was left brain dead and Mr. Renilson had multiple injuries. As soon as he heard about the condition of his wife and daughter, Mr. Renilson requested that his wife’s eyes be removed and his daughter’s eyes, kidneys, heart and liver be harvested for transplantation. It was coincidence that a nearly 2-year-old baby, with cardio myopathy, was waiting for a heart transplant at Frontier Lifeline. Dr. Cherian had told the parents of the boy that it was nearly impossible to get a donor heart that was as young and suitable.
“The child was in a bad shape, his heart was very big and transplantation was the only option,” he told The Hindu. However, the child was put on the heart registry and the parents had decided to go home, when the call came from Bangalore. Immediately, they were rushed to the hospital and the baby prepared for surgery. It helped that the donor was O positive, universal donor.
A plane was chartered to fly to Bangalore and bring the heart back to Chennai. The flight got clearance to land at the HAL airport and the team from Frontier Lifeline rushed to Manipal Hospital.
By 5 a.m. on Thursday, the surgery was completed and the heart began its reassuring thud in the youngest-ever heart recipient in India. Again, the entire operation would not have been possible but for the co-operation of the Chennai Police and co-ordination between the transplant teams of both hospitals.
A trust, the AP Hitendran Memorial Trust, was formed to address road safety and organ donation. A street in Chengalpettu district was named after him.
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