{"id":10942,"date":"2026-07-17T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2026-07-17T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:59:08","slug":"when-love-gives-life-balwinder-surjeets-kidney-transplant-journey-at-srms-institute-of-medical-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/when-love-gives-life-balwinder-surjeets-kidney-transplant-journey-at-srms-institute-of-medical-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN LOVE GIVES LIFE: BALWINDER &#038; SURJEET\u2019S KIDNEY TRANSPLANT JOURNEY AT SRMS INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the greatest medicine is love. When 52-year-old <strong>Balwinder Singh<\/strong> from Uttarakhand was battling kidney failure, hope seemed distant, until his wife, <strong>Surjeet Kaur<\/strong> (48), chose to give him not just her support, but a part of herself.<\/p>\n<p>Under the skilled hands of <strong>Dr (Prof) Sanjay Kumar<\/strong>, Consultant Nephrologist &amp; Kidney Transplant Physician at <strong>SRMS Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Bareilly<\/strong>, the transplant was a success. Today, 10 months later, Balwinder and Surjeet are living proof that life after such a battle can be brighter, fuller, and more meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>This story is shared as part of <strong>World Organ Donation Day<\/strong> (<strong>on August 13<\/strong>) and our campaign <strong>\u2018Angdaan \u2013 Jeevan Sanjeevani Abhiyaan\u2019<\/strong>, to inspire more people to consider organ donation. Surjeet\u2019s message is simple yet powerful, \u201cIf you can give life, don\u2019t think twice; humanity is the greatest gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/embed\/rhhaA8BojoI\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the greatest medicine is love. When 52-year-old Balwinder Singh from Uttarakhand was battling kidney failure, hope seemed distant, until<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clinical-updates","category-medical-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srms.ac.in\/ims\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}