Four patients benefit from year’s first organ donation

PUNE: The city registered the year’s first multi-organ donation at Jehangir Hospital on January 4.
The husband of a 47-year-old brain-dead woman donated her vital organs, including her heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys, to benefit four patients with end-stage diseases in Pune, Nashik, and Hyderabad.
The woman’s heart and lungs were transplanted into a 30-year-old patient diagnosed with end-stage heart and lung condition at the KIMS Hospital in Hyderabad.
Her liver gave a new lease of life to a 33-year-old patient with end-stage liver damage at Sahyadri Hospital, Deccan branch. The recipient is a resident of Satara.
The woman’s kidneys benefited two patients at Jehangir Hospital in Pune and Apollo Hospital in Nashik.
“This was also the year’s first organ donation in Maharashtra and second in India, after Surat,” said Aarti Gokhale, transplant coordinator, Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC), an apex body that oversees the allocation of donated organs.
The donor had suffered intracranial bleeding and was declared brain-dead at Jehangir Hospital on January 2.
“The woman’s husband, a government official, her brother and son-in-law supported the cause of organ donation by giving their consent. Awareness about organ donation is increasing every day,” said the hospital’s transplant coordinator Vrunda Pusalkar.
The donor’s married daughter and son, a college student, gave their consent to the procedure.