New Delhi, Sept. 11 -- In a rare medical feat, doctors at Bengaluru hospital Narayana Health City carried out three heart transplants in back-to-back surgeries within a span of 12 hours, saving the lives of three men in their 30s who had been on the waiting list for over a year.

The patients, all at advanced stages of heart failure, were at risk of becoming ineligible for transplantation due to rising lung pressure. Suitable donor hearts became available almost simultaneously at three different hospitals in Bengaluru - Sparsh Hospital (Yelahanka), Aster CMI Hospital (Hebbal), and Manipal Hospital (Old Airport Road). The organs were transported to Narayana Health City through coordinated logistics and green corridors.

The transplant surg...