KOTTAYAM: The Kottayam Medical College has made history once again by beginning Kerala’s first lung transplant surgery in a government hospital. Along with the lungs, doctors will also transplant the heart and kidneys - three vital organs - at the same time. This marks the first instance in India where three major organs are being transplanted simultaneously in a government hospital. Kottayam Medical College had earlier achieved similar milestones by successfully performing heart and liver transplants.

The organs were donated by AR Aneesh (38), an Assistant Prison Officer at Poojappura Central Jail, who was declared brain-dead at the Kottayam Medical College Hospital. Aneesh, a native of Poozhanad in Thiruvananthapuram, suffered a head injury after falling at Pamba while returning from Sa

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