External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday underwent a kidney transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Sources revealed that the transplant procedure began at 8:30 a.m and successfully ended at around 2:30 p.m on Saturday December 10. The surgery was performed by AIIMS Director MC Misra and Sub-Dean VK Bansal apart from a few other senior doctors. The minister has been shifted to […]

Two decades of diabetes has caused 64-year-old External Affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj’s kidneys to shut down. Admitted in the Capital’s premier medical institute, AIIMS, she will undergo a transplant soon. According to sources in the hospital, the minister’s creatinine levels, which measure how well the kidneys are functioning, were around 5 mg%; normally it should range from 0.80 mg% to 1.21 mg%. The higher the creatinine levels, the more damaged […]