Pune: Brain-dead auto driver’s organ donation benefits three

PUNE: The doctors at Sahyadri hospital in Deccan conducted cadaver liver, kidney and combined kidney-pancreas transplants on Saturday, which benefited three patients battling end-stage conditions.
An autorickshaw driver (37) was declared brain-dead at the hospital on Friday because of a blood clot in his brain. His vital organs were harvested after his family gave their consent.
This was the fourth organ donation in the city, which led to successful transplant surgeries during the lockdown phase.
“The man’s liver was transplanted into a 45-year-old man suffering from end-stage chronic liver condition at Sahyadri hospital. His pancreas-kidney were transplanted into a 52-year-old man with kidney and pancreas failure at the same hospital. The other kidney benefited a patient of renal failure at Jehangir hospital,” said Aarti Gokhale, transplant coordinator of Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC), an apex body that allocates donated organs as per the norms and waiting list.
The donor and recipients were tested for Covid-19 and the reports were negative. “We then started the transplantation process, where the standard procedures to avoid Covid-19 infection were followed with extra precautions and minimum staff. Both the recipients are now stable,” Bipin Vibhute, Sahyadri hospital’s liver and multi-organ transplant surgeon, said.