CHENNAI: Doctors in the US had given Ronald Lemmer, 65, only a year to live and had scoffed at his idea of going to India for a heart transplant. They told him he would return in a coffin. Today, after a successful heart transplant at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, Lemmer is smiling. So is India's medical fraternity. For, till the 1980's it was the Indians who went to the US for heart surgeries and Americans ever flying down for treatment was inconceivable.
Lemmer was transplanted with the heart of a 36-year-old accident victim in an eight-hour surgery on July 21. On Thursday, Apollo Hospitals presented him to the media. Lemmer will return to Minneapolis on August 10. Dr Paul Ramesh, one of the cardiothoracic surgeons who operated on Lemmer, said he is the oldest person to receive a new heart in India.
Thats good.
Laws about organ transplantation are becoming stricter day by day and China's illegal organ transplantation must be replaced by proper and legal system of doing it.
I think only foreign get beneficial after treated by indian doctors and we all should go to foreign countries for treatment..as india the same apolla have many failure case due to neglegence.
I dont know whether to congratulation on acheiving success in saving a patient or blame for negligence.
Anyhow thanks for sharing the information..hope the system improves a lot.
