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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

Successful heart transplantation in Belagavi

Surgeons at KLE Society’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) have performed a heart transplant. This is the third such procedure conducted successfully in the last five years in the medical college.

A team led by cardiac surgeon Richard Saldanha transplanted the heart of a brain-dead donor and saved the life of a 25-year-old man from Goa.

The procedure was conducted last month.

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