4 years after kidney, pancreas transplant, woman gives birth at Chandigarh hospital
India Today
An Uttarakhand woman, who had undergone pancreas and kidney transplant in 2018, recently gave birth at Chandigarh’s PGIMER.
Till 2018, life was a rollercoaster ride for Saroj Sharma (23), who was a chronic Type-1 diabetes patient and had reported kidney and pancreas failure in 2016. She was surviving on dialysis. Her life took a turn for the better in 2018 after doctors grafted donated kidneys and pancreas in 2018.
The transplants were successful, but Saroj was kept under medical supervision by doctors at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, as a precautionary measure.
In 2020, Saroj approached Dr Ashish Sharma, the PGIMER surgeon who had grafted kidneys and pancreas on her.
"Life becomes easy after organ transplantation, which also regulates the menstrual cycle. She approached me in 2020 that someone had proposed to her. I advised her to tell everything to her life partner," Dr Ashish Sharma said.
Soon after, Saroj married Vikas Sharma in 2020. Saroj was initially skeptical about her pregnancy and so she again consulted Dr Ashish Sharma, who, along with his entire team, kept in touch with her even during the Covid-19 pandemic.
After two years of marriage, Saroj delivered a beautiful baby girl on September 28 at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
Speaking to India Today, PGI's gynaecologist Dr Seema Chopra said that this was a high-risk pregnancy as the mother's body might have rejected the grafted organs.
