Missed opportunity: PGI could have performed its first lung transplant hindustantimes.com

TThis happened even as the department of pulmonary medicine, and that too for the first time, started retrieving lungs from a brain-dead man on Saturday after his family consented to donate his organs. And there were recipients available too
It was a day of missed opportunity at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).
On Saturday, the region’s premier health care institute could well have performed its first-ever lung transplant had it not been for the absence of a surgeon trained for the job.