(Deepshikha Gautam, Intern Journalist) Ludhiyana: Humanity is above all religions in the world and this is the biggest relationship. This has been proved by two Sikh and Muslim women of Punjab. These women from two families of Jamalpur in Malerkotla and village Darren of Fatehgarh Sahib have become an inspiration to others. If the Sikh woman saved the life of a Muslim man by giving her kidney, the Muslim woman donated her kidney and gave life to the Sikh man. Manpreet Kaur of Fatehgarh gave her kidney to a Muslim person from Malerkotla, while Shakeela from Malerkotla donated her kidney to a Sikh youth from Fatehgarh. Both women also gave the message of organ donation on Saturday. Both were honored by the District Deputy Commissioner on Saturday.
Swap kidney transplant surgery of patients from both these families was done at Akai Hospital on Chandigarh Road. One of these patients is from Sikh and the other from a Muslim family. During this period, a Muslim man from the kidney of a woman of a Sikh family and a Sikh man from the kidney of a woman of a Muslim family got life. The hospital’s chief urologist and renowned kidney transplant surgeon Dr. Baldev Singh Aulakh and his team transplanted the kidney to the patients. Dr. Aulakh claims that this in itself is the first case in the world. Both patients are healthy after the swap transplant. The swap transplant has been congratulated by Governor BP Singh Badnaur, Jani Jathedar Harpreet Singh of Shri Akal Takht Sahib, and Mohammed Osman, Naib Imam of Ludhiana Jama Masjid.
Dr. Baldev Aulakh said that the kidney of 43-year-old Shakeel Ahmed of Malerkotla was damaged in 2018. Treatment with medicines continued. Four months ago his condition worsened. Dialysis started happening. He wanted to have a kidney transplant, but no family members had a blood group match with him. Similarly, 30-year-old Manveer Singh of Fatehgarh’s kidney also worsened in 2018. Dialysis had been going on for two years. Barring his mother Jaswinder Kaur, none of his family members, including wife Manpreet Kaur, had a blood group match.
The kidney could not be taken due to his mother having high blood pressure and sugar.
Dr. Baldev said that during the examination of both the patients, it was found that the blood of Manveer’s wife Manpreet was matching with Shakeel who is a Group A positive. Shakeel’s sister Shakeela’s blood group was matched with Manveer of the group B positive group. When he spoke to the relatives of both patients, he agreed to a swap transplant. After completion of all the formalities, both the patients were kept in Corona Screening and Quarantine for seven days. On 14 October, the kidneys of Shakeela, Manveer, and Manpreet Kaur’s kidney were transplanted to Shakeel.
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