The two patients who underwent heart transplant surgeries in Kochi are recovering well. Ajin Elias and Avani Krishna, who recently had new donor hearts transplanted into them, have started consuming food and communicating, the hospital authorities have said.
Dr. Jose Chacko Periyapuram, who led the surgery at Lisie Hospital here, said the condition of the patients was satisfactory. They would be shifted to rooms in two or three days. “False propaganda had led to the pausing of organ donations from brain-dead patients,” Dr. Periyapuram said. He expressed hope that transplant surgeries would create awareness about organ donation after brain death and bring in a momentum for it.
