Pune: Organs of 25-year-old brain dead man from Solapur saves 3 lives

On September 18 and 19, medical teams from two Pune hospitals successfully performed the organ transplantations. The doctors also said that the recipients of the organs, liver, kidneys, and the pancreas, of the 25-year-old man are stable.

Sandip Patil, Administrator and Transplant Coordinator at Chandan Neuro Sciences hospital in Solapur said the man had completed his graduation in Ayurvedic medicine at a college in Kodoli, Kolhapur, and had returned to his village in the Umarga taluka of Solapur.

On September 13, the man, who aspired to pursue postgraduate studies in Ayurveda, met with an accident while travelling on a two-wheeler with his brother. According to Patil, the man suffered severe head injuries after a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus brushed past the two-wheeler. A police case was registered, Patil said.

“It was a traumatic brain injury and eventually, Dr Prasanna Kasegaonkar, chairman and consulting neurologist at the hospital, declared the man as brain dead,” Patil said. The corneas were sent to a Solapur-based hospital, he added.

At the Medicover Hospitals, Dr Sharan Narute, Director and Chief Liver Transplant surgeon, said the Pune unit of the hospital performed the organ transplantation on a recipient in his mid-thirties. The recipient had more than ten hospital admissions in a span of one year. “After the liver transplant, the patient has responded well and he has a good chance of recovery,” Dr Narute told The Indian Express.

Dr Vrishali Patil, Multi Organ Transplant surgeon and head of the department of transplant surgery at the Dr D Y Patil Medical College and Hospital, said the young man’s kidney and pancreas was successfully transplanted in a 39-year-old-man. “The recipient had Type 1 diabetes and kidney failure. The operation was a complex one but we were able to successfully transplant the organs. Post transplant, the patient does not require dialysis and he is responding well,” Dr Patil said.

Another kidney was transplanted in a man in his early 40s.