A three-year-old girl has become the youngest person in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region to undergo a blood group incompatible kidney transplant at the Medanta Hospital.
It is being seen as a major breakthrough in kidney transplant.
Pratyusha, weighing 10 kgs, was suffering from ‘reflux nephropathy’ since birth. It is a critical disorder in which the urine tends to go back to the kidneys.