Sushma Swaraj Discharged From AIIMS Post Kidney Transplant Surgery

The External Affairs Minister underwent a kidney transplant surgery on Saturday.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was discharged from the AIIMS hospital on Monday, after undergoing a kidney transplant surgery on Saturday.

According to the statement from the hospital, Swaraj has been recovering well after the surgery.

Swaraj received a kidney from a “living, unrelated donor”.

Doctors at AIIMS had earlier said that Swaraj’s recovery was being closely monitored by a team of transplant surgeons, physicians (endocrinologist, nephrologist, cardiologist and pulmonologist) and anaesthetists, besides critical care experts, physiotherapists and transplant specialists.