Gandhinagar: A 21-year-old youth battling blood cancer was airlifted from Ahmedabad to Telangana with the help of Gujarat health minister Rushikesh Patel.
The youth was studying in Gujarat's Rashtriya Raksha Shakti University and sought help due to his financial inability to return to his home in Telangana.
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The blood cancer patient had become unconscious after which he was taken to Apollo Hospital in Gandhinagar. Normally a person's WBC count is 4000 to 11000 but in this case, it had increased to 4,50,000.
The team of doctors cured the patient by performing a surgery.
The man had sought help from the Health Minister due to financial inability to return. After which, Rushikesh Patel helped the patient return home by airlift and admitted him to the hospital in Telangana.
team had earlier reported that a harvested human heart was airlifted from Nagpur to Pune in an IAF plane and later transplanted into a recipient admitted to the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS) in the western Maharashtra city. The live heart, retrieved from a woman declared brain dead, was successfully transplanted into the recipient, a male air warrior at the Pune-based AICTS, later in the day. The vital organ was sent through a green corridor created by the civil administration before being transported to Pune, more than 700 km from Nagpur, on an Indian Air Force (IAF) AN-32 aircraft in the "most expeditious" manner, said a defence release here. The flying time was around 90 minutes, said an official.
A separate press release issued by the zonal transplant coordination centre said the donor of the heart was a 31-year-old woman, Shubhangi Gannyarpawar, who resided in Nagpur with her husband and one- and-a-half-year old daughter.
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