Mr Amit Kumar Dey, 45 yrs old gentleman (Medica UHID-466198) residing at Debogram, Ilam Bazar, P.S.-Kaliganj, Dist-Nadia, Pin-741137, a shopkeeper by profession consulted Dr. Kunal Sarkar in the month of January 2020 with end stage heart failure. He had suffered massive myocardial Infarction. His heart function was severely compromised as it had affected both right and left ventricle.

He was put on the list of organ recipient in ROTTO Portal after appropriate investigation. His heart function became much worse and was admitted in Medica Superspecialty Hospital on 17th Feb, 2020. He remained very critically ill, suffered two cardiac arrests.He was on ventilator with Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) support.

Considering his critical condition we requested ROTTO to give priority for organ allocation. By the first week of March as all of us were getting anxious about CORONA situation, it was looking less and less likely that this gentleman could make it to the transplant.

Fortunately on 17th March, 2020, ROTTO said that one donor heart was available at Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Science (IGIMS), Patna. The retrieval team was rushed to IGIMS (Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences), in the early morning of 18th March, 2020.

The heart was harvested and transported to Kolkata within two hours. This would not have been possible without the outmost collaboration of IGIMS, Patna Police, Indigo Airline, ROTTO, Bidhannagar Police and Kolkata Police.
The Heart Transplant was done successfully on 18th March, 2020.

Maintaining hygiene, nutrition and minimum contact will be very important and more so in this period of Covid pandemic. His family members have been trained and counselled thoroughly on home management. They discharged Mr. Dey on 21st April, 2020.

The entire expenses of this two months period have been supported by the hospital.

The Heart Transplant team of Medica Superspecialty Hospital consisted of
Dr. Kunal Sarkar, Dr Sandip Sardar, Dr Arpan Chakraborty, Dr Dipanjan Chatterjee, Dr Soumyajit Ghosh, team Perfusionists and Physician Assistant.
A great effort during these dark times.