Cardiac and Hepatic Transplant Surgeons, Physicians, Cadaver Maintenance Team, Medical Social Workers and Nursing teams from Fortis Hospital, Mulund, worked in exceptional coordination to enable Maharashtra's first Heart & Liver transplant surgery on a single recipient, a 24yr old man, on Sunday.

The landmark surgery was enabled when the husband and family of a 40yr old housewife from Mulund, Mumbai, consented to donate her organs after she was declared brain dead at the same hospital.

An official release by Fortis, Mulund this evening stated that “Young mother of one, was rushed to a local nursing home and then moved to Fortis Hospital, Mulund, after she collapsed at her home and was diagnosed with Brain Stem Infarction with Basilar Artery Thrombosis (Brain Stroke); she was subsequently declared brain dead.The patient was evaluated and assessed for Organ Donation.Medical Social Workers at the hospital counselled the distraught family and explained the procedure of Organ Donation, subsequently, her husband, along with other family members, consented to donate.