Patient stable after heart transplant at CMCH

Kolkata: Habibur Rehman, a resident of Murshidabad who had a heart transplant at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, is stated to be in stable condition.

According to a senior official of the hospital, the patient has been given antibiotics so that he does not get any infection. The patient will be kept in the ICU for the next two days, following which he may be shifted depending on his health.

It has also been learnt that the patient has been recovering well and responding to

the treatment so far. He has been kept under close monitoring by the doctors of the special team that had been constituted at the hospital ahead of the surgery.

It may be mentioned here that one Sajal Kar received injuries when the motorcycle he was riding on skidded near Kolaghat, following which the 20-year-old died at a private hospital in Alipore on Wednesday.

After his family members agreed to donate his

organs, the whole process of retrieving organs was started under the supervision of the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO).

Green Corridors were facilitated by the city police to transport the liver to SSKM, the heart to CMCH and one kidney to a private hospital on E M Bypass. The other kidney was transplanted in a patient at the same hospital where the victim died.

The liver was transplanted in Joypratim Ghosh, a resident of Baruipur who had been undergoing treatment at SSKM. Kar's skin was

also donated to the same hospital, while the corneas went to a private eye hospital in Salt Lake.