New Delhi: HL Correspondent
A 19-year old, who was declared brain dead following a road accident, saved the life of four people admitted at various hospitals here, doctors have said.
Resident of Paschim Vihar, Ravidas, was admitted to Maharaja Agrasen hospital on Jan 14th. Following no response to the treatment by the hospitals he was declared brain dead on Friday, on which the hospital authorities consulted the patient’s parents and convinced them to donate their son’s organs.
Accordingly the Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation(ORBO) at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences was consulted and the body of the patient was brought to the institution.
A team of health experts consulted a test to check the conditions of patient’s organ and following that the heart, liver, kidneys and cornea were retrieved from the patient’s body.
While the heart was transplanted to the body of a 13-year old girl at AIIMS suffering from heart ailment, the liver was shared with the Institute of Liver and Bilary Sciences(ILBS) where it was transplanted to a 60-year old patient suffering from liver cancer.
According to the director of AIIMS, M.C. Misra, each of the kidneys were transplanted to a 40 -year old patient at AIIMS and another was shared with the Maharaja Agrasen hospital.
“As the accident had damaged one of the eye, the cornea of only one eye could be retrieved. Following no immediate requirement anywhere, it was sent to the organ bank of AIIMS,” said Misra.
Misra also said that over 100 medical and para-medical staffs were involved in the over all process of the organ transplant.
