Parents donate organs of a brain dead 16-yr-old, save three lives

The minor girl, a resident of Vasant Vihar, was riding her two-wheeler when she was hit by a car on April 7 in Thane.

The parents of a 16-year-old girl, who died on April 9 after meeting with a road accident two days before, saved the lives of three others in the city by deciding to donate their child’s organs. The girl became the first minor in the city this year to have her heart, kidneys and liver donated.

The minor girl, a resident of Vasant Vihar, was riding her two-wheeler when she was hit by a car on April 7 in Thane. She was rushed to Jupiter Hospital but the doctors there found that her reflexes had become numb and that she was unresponsive to the treatment. On Saturday, after two days of hospitalisation, she was declared brain dead, a condition in which the brain stem cells stop responding even though the heart continues to beat.

According to hospital authorities, it was on the suggestion of the girl’s relatives that her parents agreed to donate her organs. “Her relatives are from Indore and are employed with security agencies and fire brigades. They have been part of several green corridors that Indore had created for transporting organs,” said Aniruddh Kulkarni, transplant coordinator, Jupiter Hospital.

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On Saturday evening, the first apnea test, to confirm brain death, was conducted on the deceased. Then, team operated on her to retrieve her kidneys and liver. According to doctors at Fortis Hospital, the heart could not be extracted due to “certain medical conditions”.

While one of her kidney has been transplanted into a 24-year-old man, the second kidney was transplanted into a 42-year-old man, both residents of Mumbai. The liver has been donated to Global Hospital, Parel, for a recipient.

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