Keralite girl’s rare Heart and Lung Transplantsurgery successfully performed at Apollo Hospital, Chennai

Ambili was suffering from a rare disease where her lungs become dysfunctional as the good and bad blood get mixed through a hole in the upper compartment of her heart.

The 11-hour long surgery wasled by Senior Consultants and Cardiothoracic and Transplant surgeons, Dr Paul Ramesh Thangaraj, Dr Sunder T and Dr Madhan Kumar, of Apollo Hospitals Chennai. On Wednesday 12^th August, relatives of a brain-dead person came forward to donate his organs to Ambili.

Ambili is recovering well and will soon resume her day to day activities.