Hindu Kidney Muslim Man

Anupam Srivastava
A eight year old Hindu boy born with a siamese twin body without head and face saved the life of a 24 year old Muslim Youth by donating Kidney through "twin body kidney transplant".
Eight year old Kishan Patel son of a labourer was fighting with his destiny as he has an addtional pair of hands, leg , stomach attach to his body. His Father Vijay Patel approached number of doctors but he had no money to separate the additional portion from the body of his son.
Vijay carried his son to Sushrut Institute of Plastic Surgery (SIPS)Lucknow where he was provided free treatment by the institute.
Doctors during the pre operative evaluation found that that Kishan has a extra kidney functioning in his twin body, normally the specimen would have landed into a pathology or a museum but the doctors of the institute decided to use this kidney for the benefit of mankind.
The idea of doctors had some issues like ethical concerns, as this type of transplant was never described in medical literature.
On other side 24 year Shafiqur-rehman marketing manager with Bajaj Allianz was suffering from chronic kidney failure, he was undergoing weekly diagnosis for his survival but fate had something else in store for him. When his condition deteriorated he was hospitalised at SGPGIMS in March 2008.
The doctors from SIPS contacted department of urology SGPGIMS with the case history of Kishan. The doctors from SGPGIMS carried out the feasibility tests on number of patients but it matched with the Shafiqur-rehmans.
The surgery of Kishan was planned at SIPS which is located 22 kilometers away from SGPGIMS at the same time Shafiqur-rehman was prepared for transplantation he was anaesthetized in the operation theatre of urology department.
At SIPS doctors removed the extra kidney of Kishan packed in ice cold eurocollins organ preserving solution and was send to SGPGIMS under the police escort to avoid any sort of delay in way due to traffic jams. The traffic was coordinated by the police at main crossings like Parivaratn Chowk, Hazratganj, Raebareli road and Telibagh to ensure early delivery of kedney at SGPGIMS.
However the kidney were transplanted and Shaqur-rehman is a happy man today.

That is, the organ was removed from one of the twins and transplanted into another person. The surgery was performed by the urology department two months ago but was kept under warps for its confirmed success. Head of the urology department SGPGIMS Dr Rakesh Kapoor said, “ Shafiqur is a fit man today after two months of transplant.”
Shafiqur-rehman talking to Hindustan Times said, “ Now I want to do something for the Unity between Hindus and Muslim, although I am a muslim but with the help of Hindu Kidney. This proves everyone is made by one god name it Allah of Ishwar. I don’t have to spend sleepless nights due to pain, I am leading a normal life.”
Ikram-ul-Haq Siddiqui father of Shafiqur-rehman said, “ I will do what ever I can do for the family of Kishan, I had five sons earlier now I have six one of them is Kishan.”
Vijay father of Kishan said, “ We are Indians first before becoming Hindus or Muslims, if the kidney of my son can save the life of anyone then its great.”
Member of transplant team Dr Aneesh Srivastava said, “ The operation was typical as kidney was of an eight year old boy and recipient was a grown up man. But the body has accepted the kidney now and its functioning normally.”
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