Organ donation: 35-year-old Surat man gets heart from 28-year-old Pune auto rickshaw driver

Dr D Y Patil hospital authorities said the lungs were successfully sent to KIMS hospital, Hyderabad for transplant in a 60-year-old man. One kidney each was transplanted in a wait-listed patient at DY Patil hospital and in another patient at Sassoon general hospital. The liver was also transplanted in a 65-year-old woman at DY Patil hospital.

The 28-year-old man was brought to the casualty section of Dr DY Patil hospital on August 20 but was declared brain dead on August 21. Relatives of the man informed the hospital authorities that the youth had stepped out with his friend during the Dahi Handi festival.

“The police have ruled out any untoward incident and as such it is uncertain how he suffered a head injury. The relatives of the man told us that a friend got him home but when he did not wake up, they admitted him to the hospital on August 20,” Barge said. The relatives were subsequently counselled to donate the young man’s organs.

There have been 28 brain stem death donors and around 79 organs have been transplanted this year in Pune, Aarti Gokhale, Central Coordinator, Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre, Pune told indianexpress.com. There have been a total of 38 heart transplants from 2017 till date in Pune, she added.