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He lost his wife last year and three days ago, consented to donate the organs of his nine-year-old son who was declared brain dead at Sadhu Vaswani Mission’s medical complex, Inlaks and Budhrani hospital. The boy’s organs helped save four lives, Rhea Ahuja, medical superintendent at Inlaks and Budhrani hospital said.
Inlaks and Budhrani hospital performed its first multi-organ and tissue donation on July 9 after the boy’s father consented to donating his organs. The nine-year-old, who was on regular treatment for a benign colloid cyst with hydrocephalus (obstructive) with coning, was admitted to the hospital after he had a severe headache and vomiting on July 3.
We conducted a surgery, but the boy’s condition was critical, Ahuja said and was declared brain dead towards midnight on July 8. Both the father and boy’s uncle were counselled and a decision was taken to save four lives by donating his organs.
Aarti Gokhale, central coordinator, Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC) , Western zone said one kidney was sent to Jupiter Lifeline hospital. The other kidney and pancreas was harvested and transplanted into one patient at Sahyadri Specialty Hospital, Pune Deccan and lungs were sent for transplant to Dr D Y Patil hospital and Research Centre.
Gokhale said that the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation has declared July as organ donation awareness month. On July 8 the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) was enacted in order to regularise removing, storing and transplanting human organs for therapeutic purposes.
Families of four donors, who were declared brain dead, consented to donate their organs. Waitlisted patients across different hospitals received a new lease of life as eight kidneys were harvested and transplanted apart from two livers, one split liver,one heart and one lung.
