Overview

• An Indian Air Force transport aircraft departed Pune overnight on June 20-21 to ferry a liver and two kidneys to Army Hospital (R&R) in Delhi.
• The organs were donated by a brain-dead soldier’s dependent and will be allocated to multiple patients awaiting urgent transplants.
• The mission was carried out jointly with the Armed Forces Medical Services in a rapid-response operation.
• Delhi’s Army Hospital (R&R) will receive the organs for surgical teams to perform the transplants and save lives.
• This operation follows a similar IAF-led organ airlift from Bengaluru earlier in June as part of the military’s broader organ transplantation network.