“Every passing second reminded us that we were losing precious time. It was like my own heart was being moved to Mumbai,” said cardio-thoracic surgeon Dr Sanjeev Jadhav (42) who was part of a path-breaking operation to retrieve a donor heart in Pune, transfer it all the way to Mumbai, and carry out the first-ever successful heart transplant here.

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