Summary:
At Fortis Hospital, Chennai, where Kirpal underwent the heart transplant in October last year, a 21-year-old man who suffered from heart and lung failure was admitted. “I have survived a heart transplant and am doing fine. Kirpal, through her foundation, paid a sum of Rs 5 lakh for the man’s operation. A 14-year-old boy, Pruthviraj Deshmukh, underwent a kidney transplant at a hospital in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu recently. AdvertisingWhile the boy received the organ from his father, a rickshaw driver, the operation was funded by Viney Kirpal, (70), a heart transplant survivor who works at an NGO in Pune..