Kidney donation crosses boundaries of religion

Two women Nazia Habib and Vimala Dwivedi broke all the shackles of caste, creed and religion to see their husbands back on their foot and in pink of health.
Both were looking for a donor for their respective husbands and had lost all hope for a matching kidney.
Nazia's husband Mohammad Shamim was on dialysis for the last 2 years and was in dire need for a kidney transplant.
Nazia wanted to help her husband, but she couldn't donate her kidney to him as it did not match his blood group.
She reached Max Super Speciality Hospital in Saket where she was informed about the possibility of kidney paired donation.

Kidney paired donation occurs when a living kidney donor is incompatible with the recipient, and hence exchanges kidneys with another donor-recipient pair. Such transplantation enables two incompatible recipients to receive healthy, more compatible kidneys from each other's relatives.

Patient Ramesh Dwivedi, a government servant and a resident of Gorakhpur was on dialysis since February 2013. His 40-year-old wife Vimala Devi, a home maker, readily offered to donate her kidney to save her husband's life, but couldn't due to blood group mismatch.
On approaching Max Hospital's Institute of Renal Sciences, she found out about Nazia who had B+ blood group and could donate kidneys to her husband. On the other hand, Vimala's blood group and other vitals matched with Nazia's husband.

The team led by Dr Dinesh Khullar and Dr Anant Kumar arranged a meeting of both the families and educated them about the possibility of helping each other.
On April 9, the patients and donors were taken in for surgery. After about an eight-hour long surgery, Ramesh was successfully implanted with Nazia's kidney and Mohd Shamim was implanted with Vimala's kidney.
Both the patients and donors have been discharged.
"Every organ donated can save a life. In a year, approximately 2 lac new patients need kidney transplantation in India, but only 5000 can actually manage a kidney transplantation. Rest of the patients do not get treatment due to finances or unavailability of donor. We all must consider donating our organs after death. In case of unavailablity of deceased donors, the family members must not shy away from donating their kidney".

"This sindoor that I apply on my forehead is a precious gift given by Nazia. My husband owes his life to Nazia and she and her family will always be close to us," Vimala said.