Updated On: 30 May, 2024 05:16 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Doctors of Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar, performed the transplant on Bhaskar, a 45-year-old tailor from Khammam district of Telangana. He had been suffering from severe heart disease which got aggravated in the past three years due to his partial polio condition

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Doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad have successfully performed what is claimed to be the first-ever heart transplant on a polio survivor.
Doctors of Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar, performed the transplant on Bhaskar, a 45-year-old tailor from Khammam district of Telangana.