Indias First Liver Transplant Recipient Turns Doctor, Set to Marry

Sanjay Kandasamy, who received Indias first-ever successful liver transplant as a toddler, has grown up to become a doctor himself and is now engaged to be married.

On November 15, 1998, a team of doctors in Delhi performed India's first-ever successful liver transplant on Sanjay Kandasamy, barely 20-month-old then. Twenty-five years down the line, the boy has grown to become a doctor himself and set to tie the knot.

Sanjay Kandasamy's Journey

On Wednesday, an event was held in Delhi to mark the 25th anniversary of the feat achieved at the Apollo Indraprastha Hospitals.Kandasamy, a Tamil Nadu native who had become rather famous as baby Sanjay, attended the event along with his parents.Speaking toon the sidelines of the event, he said, "I recently got engaged and will get married in March next year. This transplant gave me a second life. In fact, my fiancee called me today and wished me happy second life birthday."

Apollo Hospitals Celebrates 500th Paediatric Transplant Surgery

At the event, Apollo doctors announced that one-and-half-year-old Prisha had become the recipient in the 500th paediatric transplant surgery across the hospital chain.The girl child, hailing from Bihar, also attended the event.Noted actress Dimple Kapadia felicitated both the families during the event.Apollo Hospitals Group Medical Director and senior paediatric gastroenterologist Anupam Sibal said more than 4,300 liver transplants, including 515 procedures in children, have been conducted at Apollo hospitals since the landmark transplant 25 years ago.

Prisha's Story

Prishas mother Anjali Kumari said her daughter was born on May 6 last year and after three months, her body started turning yellow, a condition doctors call biliary atresia, following which she and her husband took her to a private hospital in Patna."After that she was referred to the private hospital in Delhi and her transplant took place in January this year," Kumari said.Sanjay Kandasamy said he too had suffered from the same condition - biliary atresia. He had received a slice of a liver from his father.kandasamy fondly calls Dr Sibal as uncle Sibal and said when he got engaged in the first week of November, he called him up to inform that baby Sanjay who became a doctor in 2021 was now set to be married."As a child, I used to ask my mother about the scars on my abdomen. When I grew up and had an idea about my life, I too decided to become a doctor, and thus finished my MBBS in 2021, and now practising in my hometown Kanchipuram, he said.

Sanjay Kandasamy's story is a testament to the power of medical science and the human spirit. His journey from being a liver transplant recipient to becoming a doctor himself is an inspiration to us all. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors.