new old delhi aiims pioneered heart transplants republic of india decided conduct lung transplants making first hospital capital second public mental institution country offer procedure pgimer recently applied licence conduct surgery wellness ministry granted institute screening potential candidates patient role chronic lung disease effective medical therapy exists prepare waiting anant mohan professor head pulmonary medicine aiims said one patient selected surgery weeks ago giveup the ghost transplant could carried preparing list two three potential candidates transplant like heart transplant carried organ donated snuff it donor till date transplants done globally including lung transpose india except one performed private hospitals function cost radius lakh medication taken wombtotomb cost several 100000 getting cadaver lungs transplant hardest partaiims director dr randeep guleria said institute conduct transplant free cost likewise provide medicines lung transplant surgical procedure murder one diseased lungs patient replace healthy one cadaver donor world first lung transplant conducted human us due high rejection rate healing issues fewer transplantation could conducted decades doctors us also attempted living conferrer lung transplants part lung donor transplanted event advance records show five foreigners underwent lung transplants various hospitals south woman mumbai became first indian undergo surgery suffering pulmonary fibrosis lung tissue paper gets pock breathing suit g k gokhale gaffer cardiothoracic transpose surgeon apollo chennai said rising lifeexpectancy increase lung diseases demand lung transplant gone availability antibiotics improved surgical techniques raised success rate surgery enough cadaver presenter also toll surgery well care high reach many doctor led several lung transplant surgical procedure south said states like telangana come new rules banning policy giving organs retrieved clay donors foreigners also led significant reduction transplants many people afford postoperative care survival rate among recipients lung transplant india much less compared us dr sector hospital pgimer chandigarh recently conducted lung transplanting woman operating theater successful patient developed resistant infection led death dr k bisoi part team pass dr p venugopal carry india first tenderness transplant proficient feasibility difficult split comes conducting heart lung hoodlum part arrange suitable cadaver bestower also patients country same afford care involves taking immunosuppressive medications day by day animation sanitised environment reduce risk infections sight shortage corpse donors scientists also working develop artificial lung small enough carried patients dependent large political machine supernumerary corporeal membrane oxygenation ecmo breathing reports university pittsburgh carnegie mellon university pittsburgh conducted animal trials artificial lung developed researchers say human trials done soon