“Necessity is the mother of invention”, says Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale when asked about how he got the idea to transport the live heart on the metro train for heart transplantation.
This is not the first time Dr A.G.K Gokhale has made it to the news with his medical heroics. In fact, he is the first heart surgeon in India to perform successful combined heart-kidney transplant. Now a luminary in heart transplantation in South India, he is also the first heart surgeon to perform a successful human-to-human heart transplant, first successful lung transplant, and double lung transplant in combined states of A.P and Telangana. He was also honoured with Padma Shri from the Government of India for his medical accomplishments.
But what made this particular heart transplantation in hyderabad unique is Dr Gokhale has innovatively solved the logistics problems that usually plague transplantations by transporting the live beating heart in Hyderabad Metro with the help of Metro authorities in Hyderabad. While the news was all over the country not many know the real story that leads to the innovative idea of using the metro for successful heart transplantation in Hyderabad.
In an interesting chat popular YouTube channel, Suman TV, Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale gives us a comprehensive view about heart transplantations procedures In India – practical problems & solutions, the back story about the successful heart transplantation in Hyderabad, his role and life journey with anecdotes and titbits.
