Pakistani Girl Heart Transplant: Doctors at MGM Healthcare Chennai have successfully performed a heart transplant on a teenager from Pakistan’s Karachi. Ayesha Rashid’s medical journey began in 2019 after a cardiac arrest in Karachi due to a pre-existing heart condition.
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Pakistani Girl Heart Transplant
Doctors at MGM Healthcare Chennai have succes
sfully performed a heart transplant on a teenager from Pakistan’s Karachi, news agency ANI reported on Friday. The report said the medical journey of 19-year-old Ayesha Rashid began in 2019 after a cardiac arrest in Karachi due to a pre-existing heart condition. She travelled to Chennai for medical evaluation. Despite her initial treatment, her health complications persisted, and she returned to Chennai in June 2023 for a transplant.
Doctors’ Remarks
Dr KR Balakrishnan–renowned Chief of Heart Transplant at MGM Healthcare emerged as a ray of hope for the teenager and her family. He not only recognised Ayesha’s medical problems but also her financial distress and collaborated with Aishwaryam–a Chennai-based healthcare trust—to finance her treatment.
On January 31, 2024, a heart was airlifted from Delhi to Chennai, paving the way for Ayesha’s life-saving transplant surgery.
Pakistani Girl Heart Transplant: Reflecting on Ayesha’s medical journey, and the financial challenges she faced, Dr Balakrishnan told ANI, “.. In that country (Pakistan), managing patients with artificial heart pumps is not easy because the equipment required to monitor is not there. With great difficulty, she got the visa and came here with little money. We had to take care of all the expenses. ‘Aishwaryam’ trust came forward very generously to help, and they paid for other patients as well. Eventually, we got a heart donor from Delhi and she underwent the transplant… Outside of North America and Western Europe, not many countries can do this. The cost incurred here is a tiny fraction of what it would have cost in other countries in the world. Technology in this country is very good…”