This story is from January 19, 2021

Pune: Woman donates husband’s organs

The pregnant wife of a 27-year-old brain-dead man donated his liver and kidneys for the benefit of three patients, who were suffering from end-stage diseases, in the city and Nashik on Monday.
Pune: Woman donates husband’s organs
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PUNE: The pregnant wife of a 27-year-old brain-dead man donated his liver and kidneys for the benefit of three patients, who were suffering from end-stage diseases, in the city and Nashik on Monday.
This is the fourth organ donation in Pune since the beginning of this year.
The donor, a labourer originally from Beed district, was on his way to meet his wife (21) in Chakan on his motorcycle when he met with an accident on January 14.

He suffered grievous head injuries and was rushed to Sahyadri hospital in Deccan. He was declared brain-dead on Sunday.
“One of his harvested kidneys was transported in preservation box to Apollo hospital in Nashik. His liver and another kidney benefited two others enrolled for organ transplant at Sahyadri hospital in Pune on Monday,” said Aarti Gokhale, transplant coordinator of Zonal Transplant Coordination Committe. The committee oversees allocations of donated organs as per the norms.
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