While many use WhatsApp for fun and frolic, a group of 240 heart transplant recipients and their family members from across India have joined a dedicated group of volunteers who act as a support system for those in need of similar treatment. They have also compiled a large pan-India database covering various aspects of pre- and post-transplant care, which is shared and coordinated with recipients.

These survivors serve as translators, advisors, fundraisers for new patients, families. Representation pic

Mumbai-based group admin Armaity Homi, one of the founding members of a group called Heartiest People, shared that, as a mother of a daughter who needed an urgent heart transplant and had to be airlifted to Chennai for the procedure, she has personally witnessed the immense challenges faced from diagnosis to transplant and life thereafter.