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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI AUG. 3. The Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, today declared that August 3 would be observed every year as Heart Transplantation Day. He also announced that the Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) would now be a national facility. At a function held at his Race Course Road residence to mark the first heart transplant carried out nine years ago, Mr. Vajpayee said: "The two decisions would go a long way in promoting heart transplantation in the country". The Health and Family Welfare Minister, Sushma Swaraj, said it was a matter of pride that India was the third country after the United States and the United Kingdom to perform such an operation. Dr. Venugopal, Director, AIIMS — who was described by the Prime Minister as the pioneer of heart transplant surgery in the country — said that heart diseases were growing rapidly in the country and predicted that there would be an estimated 4 million deaths a year due to them by 2020.
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