jaipur a 28yearold resident of sujangarh in churu who was suffering from cardiomyopathy a disease in which patients heart find difficulty in pumping the blood for supplying to the rest of the body received a heart of a 22yearold in a surgery performed at sms hospital on thursdaythe donor ashok saini who was declared brain dead after meeting with an accident and got admitted to manipal hospital on january 11the donor was a resident of sikar who was diagnosed with severe brain injury at the hospital the team of doctors performed a brain surgery following which he was shifted to icu and kept on ventilator support since he did not revive on january 18 a hospitals committee on brain deaths declared him brain dead even after sustained efforts by the team of doctorsthe organ transplant counsellors encouraged the family to donate his organ following which the family gave consent for donating his heart liver and two kidneyshis heart was functioning just 15 of his capacity and unable to supply the blood to the body properly as he was suffering from cardiomyopathy his could not survive longer he is fortunate enough that he has received heart of a 22yearold donor post heart transplant we have kept in postoperative care said dr rajkumar yadav senior professor cardiothoracic vascular surgery sms hospital