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Recipient Rakhi Mandal was second-time lucky on Monday; her family had refused the first transplant offer last month. He needs close monitoring for the next 24 to 48 hours,” Fortis cardiothoracic surgeon K M Mandana said. The procedure at RTIICS began around 6pm, almost immediately after the organ reached the hospital. She was under treatment at the hospital for about a year after being detected with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM, a condition in which the heart loses power to pump blood). This was the hospital’s second heart transplant surgery; Dilchand Singh, a private tutor from Jharkhand, was the recipient in the first such procedure conducted in eastern India.“This is yet another step towards a robust heart transplant programme in Kolkata,” cardiothoracic surgeon Tapas RayChaudhury, who was part of the transplant team, said on Monday..