New Delhi/Gurgaon: In a first in SAARC region, Medanta doctors have successfully conducted an ABO incompatible kidney transplant on a youngest girl child. The flawless surgery coupled with parent’s resolve to save their daughter gave Pratyasha, the three old Odisha girl on dialysis, a new lease of life.

She had a rare condition called ‘reflux nephropathy’ in which the urine tends to go back to the kidneys. This transplant, one of the most difficult ones, has now cured her of renal failure. But for this rare surgery, she would not have lived long through dialyses. Her mother’s love for her may be matchless but, oddly enough, her kidney did not match with Pratyasha’s. Thanks to advancement in transplant, she accepted her mother’s strange kidney as her own.