India, Aug. 15 -- After a two-year wait, the state directorate of health services has allowed the Parel-based Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for children to perform paediatric heart transplants. The hospital currently already has a kidney and liver transplant programme, in addition to which they will be applying for additional transplant licenses for the pancreas, intestines and lungs, making it a multiple pediatric transplant centre.

In 2023, the hospital had sent out an application seeking official permission to conduct heart transplants, an extremely expensive procedure. This week, after all the systems and programmes had been arranged, the license given to them in September 2024 was finalised and put into effect.

The CEO of the hospital,...