Multiple kidney transplants have left 33-years-old Jaswant of Khaira Dona village in Punjab, with five kidneys in his body.

His doctors said that Jaswant is the fourth luckiest patient in India, to have undergone three successful renal transplants.

His earlier transplants were conducted at Hyderabad, Lucknow and Delhi.

Jaswant, who is a photographer by profession, got three kidneys from his family including his two sisters and his 55-year-old mother.

The doctors said that none of the kidney was removed in order to avoid any medical complication.

This is what has led Jaswant to carry five kidneys.

Jaswant underwent his first kidney transplant in 2004, and his elder sister became the first donor.

However, his body rejected the kidney as he could not carry on taking his post-operation medicine owing to financial problems in his family.
 
Two years later (in 2006), his younger sister offered her kidney during his second kidney transplant. Nut 14 months after the operation his system rejected the new organ, and he was once again on dialysis.

“Determined to see me live, the family just wouldn’t give up and prepared for another surgery. This time, my mother, 55, gave me her bean-shaped organ,” Jaswant said.

A desperate Jaswant underwent third transplant, and this time his mother Amar Kaur, 55, donated her kidney.

The doctors treating him also pooled in their resources.

The important thing to be noted is that Jaswant was able to get a donor from within the family for all his transplants.

Jaswant’s father ekes out a living by selling milk and earnings of his driver brother are also not enough.

Help came from the medics- Rajesh Agrawal, transplant surgeon of the National Kidney Hospital and Surgeons Suresh Aggarawal and Sanjay Mittal, who operated on him for free and have made arrangements for some of his medications.

"We not only did the operation free of cost but also arranged a good part of medicines," they said.

Now the doctors are planning to provide scientific data of Jaswant’s case to medical journals.