Mumbai : The wife of a 56-year-old man from Thane was aware about organ donation and its significance, following whi-ch she willingly donated her husband’s liver, kidneys and corneas, after he was declared brain-dead at Saifee Hospital on Sunday morning owing to brain haemorrhage. With this, the total number of cadaver donations in the city has jumped to 27 so far this year.
The Thane resident has given new lease of life to five patients, of which the donated liver has been transplanted to a 58-year-old man from Jupiter Hospital who was registered with Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC) and was on waiting list from the past seven months. Meanwhile, one of the kidneys has been transplanted to a 30-year-old man from Saifee Hospital who had been suffering from kidney disease for a long time whereas other kidney has been transplanted to a patient from Sion Hospital.
The donor was admitted to Saifee Hospital last Friday wherein he was diagnosed to have large middle cerebral artery infarction. However, his condition deteriorated and he breathed his last owing to brain haemorrhage. Dr Shabina Khan, transplant coordinator at Saifee Hospital said, “After he was declared brain-dead, we started our procedure of counselling the family about organ donation. But surprisingly, the family was already aware about the process and procedures which made the whole organ donation very easy.”
Dr Khan adds that the family was quite educated and understood the importance of organ donation, following which they had given consent for lungs and heart along with other organs. As the donor was in his sixties, his heart could not be harvested for donation for the two patients (12-year-old and 14-year-old boy) who are on the waiting list.
Manasi Tahalani
