Transplant Games: India

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World Transplant Games

2023

Anuja Jaiswal, April 26, 2023: The Times of India

New Delhi: Proving that receiving an organ transplant or donating an organ cannot deter anyone from living life to the full, the Team India participants, including two heart transplant recipients from Delhi, won 35 medals in the World Transplant Games 2023, which concluded in Australia’s Perth on Friday. 
According to the official member organisation from India for the games, ORGAN India, Team India won 20 medals in the organ recipient category and 15 in the living donor category. Overall, the team won 15 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze medals. 
Two athletes from Delhi were among the medal winners. Rahul Prajapati, 29, who underwent a heart transplant at All India Institute of Medical Sciences just before the pandemic, participated in the discus throw (18-29 age category) and won a bronze, while Karhun Nanda, 50, a heart recipient in 2016, won a silver medal in the individual golf event. 
 Talking to TOI, Nanda, who owns an IT company, said, “There is a stigma that organ recipients can’t do much after transplantation. But we have proved that we can live close to normal life despite the odds. We just have to change our perspective and treat a problem like a disease that can be managed. ” Nanda suffered a silent heart attack in 2015 when playing football in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj. A year later in November 2016, he underwent a transplantation in Chennai.

Proud that he had won laurels for the country, Nanda recalled “I was advised not to play football after the heart attack. But being a sportsperson at, I had to take up another sport. Two years after surgery, I started playing golf and with dedicated practice I won this medal for India. ”

Prajapati, who works as a cook in the Madhya Pradesh tourism department, said that he was disappointed at not winning a medal in badminton. He went on to grab a bronze in discus and then felt elated and proud to have represented India in Australia. “People shouldn’t feel hampered by organ transplantations. Nothing changes except the organs. Your spirit remains the same,” he declared.

The Indian contingent for WTG 2023 had 32 athletes: 24 organ transplant recipients, seven organ donors and one donor family competitor aged from 13 years to 63 years. “We are already preparing for the next games in Dresden, Germany, in 2025,” said Sunayana Singh, CEO, ORGAN India. “We hope to take a much bigger, fitter, better-trained and well-funded contingent to Germany. ”