INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
transplant on a patient from Kerala early Tuesday, hours after the ambulance carrying him and his team along with the harvested organ hit
two vehicles and crashed into a wall of the Harris Bridge en route to Lohegaon airport.The ambulance crashed into a bridge wall after
hitting a pickup van and a state transport bus.Dr Jadhav and another doctor shifted with most the of the team, many of them with injuries,
to a backup vehicle that had been trailing the ambulance and reached the airport to board a charter plane to Chennai.The surgeon carried out
oxygenation, which is the highest degree of life support, for 72 days
Had the transplant not happened on Monday, he would have died
and suffered injuries to a leg, hand and his head
The patient was already on the operating table
After the accident, some members of the medical team stayed back to take the injured driver to hospital.The charter flight landed at Chennai
on time and the lungs reached Apollo Hospital around 8.30pm
The transplant was completed around 1.30am on Tuesday.
