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Telangana’s OGH doctors perform 36-hour surgery to transplant five organs on one patient
Telangana’s OGH doctors performed a 36-hour surgery to transplant five organs on one patient, marking India’s first multi-visceral transplant. The organs were donated by a woman declared brain dead.
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