Yashoda Hospitals performed a world-first bilateral lobar lung transplant on 12-year-old Anurag Sandeep, who suffered severe lung damage after accidentally consuming paraquat. After two weeks on ECMO with no improvement, donor lungs were transplanted, saving his life
The youngster Rohit suffered Paraquat poisoning, which is a toxic chemical widely used in the manufacture of herbicides. As a result, Rohit suffered irreversible pulmonary fibrosis causing respiratory failure.
