Multiple organs retrieved from a braindead patient in Odisha were flown to Mumbai and Calcutta on Monday for transplantation providing a new lease of life to two critical patients.
The liver and heart were retrieved from Krushna Chandra Mahabhoi, a CRPF jawan, who was pronounced brain dead in the hospital on March 23. The 48-year-old patient, who had suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis, was admitted into the hospital at the SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM), a quaternary care hospital here, on March 20 and was undergoing treatment in the ICU, hospital sources said.
His condition deteriorated subsequently leading to subdural haemorrhage. The treating team conducted an Apnea test on Sunday morning which confirmed he was brain dead.
The family members of the patient then decided to donate his organs and informed the hospital authorities accordingly. “The hospital quickly got in touch with the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) in this connection following which the information reached the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO) and National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO),” officials said.
When the organ viability was tested the patient’s liver and heart were found to be in good condition for transplantation. As per the allocation of organs made by NOTTO, the liver was taken to Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre at Mumbai for transplantation on a patient while the heart was flown to Calcutta for transplantation on another patient under treatment at the Medica Superspeciality Hospital there.