India, June 9 -- In a rare and clinically complex procedure, a 42-year-old man from Maharashtra's Beed district recently received a life-saving small intestine transplant at Nanavati Max Hospital in Mumbai. The transplant in the first week of May was made after a cadaveric organ was retrieved from a brain-dead donor in Delhi and transported over 1,400 kilometres within just under five hours - a feat requiring precision, interstate coordination, and rapid emergency logistics.

The patient, Siddheshwar Dake, a resident of rural Beed in the drought-prone Marathwada region, had been suffering from worsening abdominal pain and gastrointestinal issues for more than two years. Despite consulting multiple hospitals, he received inconclusive diagn...