FOLLOWING A PIG'S HEART TRANSPLANT IN THE UNITED STATES, A CONTROVERSIAL ASSAM DOCTOR OBSERVES: HAD PERFORMED A HISTORIC OPERATION IT WAS 24 YEARS AGO TODAY.

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When news broke on Tuesday that researchers in a Maryland hospital had transplanted a genetically modified pig's heart into a patient, Assam's Dr Dhani Ram Baruah claimed that what America had accomplished in 2022, he had accomplished in 1997.

Dr. Baruah, now 72, caused a stir in 1997 when he performed a xenotransplantation (transplanting organs from one species to another) surgery on a 32-year-old man and successfully transplanted a pig's heart and lungs.

The 32-year-old survived for seven days after surgery at Baruah's clinic in Sonapur, on the outskirts of Guwahati, before succumbing to numerous infections.

The surgery sparked widespread outrage, prompting the then-Asom Gana Parishad government in Assam to launch an investigation and detain Saikia and Hong Kong surgeon Dr Jonathan Ho Kei-Shing, who assisted him in the procedure.

Baruah and Ho Kei-Shing were both sentenced to 40 days in prison after being found guilty of unethical procedure and culpable manslaughter under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994.

Dalimi Baruah, who claimed to be Baruah's long-time research collaborator, spoke on his behalf from the Dr Dhani Ram Baruah Heart Institute & Research Centre in Sonapur, where he has continued studying remedies for numerous ailments.

"This is not a new thing for Sir (Baruah), since he did it in 1997; so what's the big deal now?" Dalimi wondered.

Dalimi claimed that her mentor's ability to talk correctly was harmed when he had a stroke a few years ago and underwent brain surgery and a tracheostomy. "However, we understand what he's saying – he told us that the US surgeons were likely using the same process and understanding as he was in 1997." He has stated numerous times that pig organs can be used in humans, but no one has heeded his advice. In fact, when he was freed from prison, he discovered that his entire hospital had been burned down," she explained.

"He didn't get the respect he deserved," she added of Baruah.

Because he never had his findings professionally peer-reviewed, critics stated Baruah's assertions and medical procedures were not taken seriously or acknowledged by the scientific world.

Baruah has been working on "new research" in the previous few years, according to Dalimi, so that "people can live disease-free."

In an email interview with The Indian Express in 2019, Baruah said that his breakthrough was suppressed by the international community, following the revelation by a UK-based transplant surgeon that his team would transplant a pig's kidney into a human's body. He had commented about the UK's development, "It's the same old wine in a new bottle." All of this was said 24 years ago."

 

 

 

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