A 19-year-old Pakistani girl finds new life by an Indian heart.
Following the transplant, 19-year-old Ayesha Rashid thanked the Indian government for issuing her an emergency visa for the heart transplant
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A heart transplant at a Chennai hospital has given a Pakistani adolescent a new lease on life.
The 19-year-old from Karachi, Pakistan, known as Ayesha Rashid, had been ill since 2019. According to PTI, she was given the heart by a 69-year-old Indian donor from New Delhi.
Ayesha was treated at the MGM Healthcare hospital. Following the transplant, Ayesha thanked the Indian government for issuing her a visa. Her doctors were quoted as saying that she has been discharged following the surgery.
VIDEO | 19-year-old Pakistani girl undergoes successful heart transplant surgery in #Chennai.
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"I am feeling fine. I thank (the Indian government) for giving me visa...I got a heart transplant," says Ayesha Rashid, a resident of Karachi, Pakistan.
(Full video available on PTI… pic.twitter.com/bAeNTlkN22
Dr KR Balakrishnan, the Director of the Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant at MGM Healthcare, said that Ayesha’s single-mother could barely arrange the finances.
“Her single mother had no money, no resources at all. With great difficulty, they arranged some finance and came here. We had to take care of the patient’s entire expenses including her hospitalisation,” said Balakrishnan.
