The 42-year-old man, who was operated a day before Diwali, received the heart of a 35-year-old woman from the Trauma Centre of the institute, where she had died after suffering a road accident.
"It's been a productive year and with this surgery, now the number of transplants this year has reached to 13, which is a record for any year, since the first transplant. And, two months are still to go, so we hope the number would increase from here on, all the way to 2017," AIIMS Director M C Misra told reporters.
"We performed the transplant a day before Diwali festival and next day we told the man, who used to be DTC driver, that this was his Diwali gift from AIIMS," professor of cardiology at AIIMS, Dr Sandeep Seth, said.
Incidentally, Haryana today completed 50 years of its existence and huge celebrations marked the state's golden jubilee anniversary.
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"About 350 heart transplants have been performed in the country, but very little in the public sector. About 2-3 at Army's Research & Referral Hospital here, 2-3 at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, 1-2 at PGIMER (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research).
"Maximum transplants have taken place in private hospitals in Chennai, and some in Escorts, Max and Medanta hospitals," he said.
On October 4, doctors at AIIMS had performed the 48th heart transplant in a 45-year-old cardiac patient from south Delhi after harvesting it from a young traffic accident victim in Indore.
According to AIIMS, nearly 50,000 people are in immediate need of heart transplants in the country.
Seth says the survival rate in heart transplant cases is maximum of 17 years or so of life after the surgery.
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