A heart airlifted from Pune, and organs donated by a 31-year-old Dadar resident’s family saved four lives in the last 48 hours.
On Monday, the city recorded its 21st cadaver donation when the family of Rohan Ramchandra Chaubal agreed to donate his organs after he suffered a “massive right-sided cerebral bleeding”.
He was at the Shushrusha Hospital in Dadar where he was operated upon, but did not recover and was later declared clinically brain dead. The doctors counselled the family to consider donating his organs.
Since the hospital is not registered as a transplant or a retrieval centre, the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee contacted P D Hinduja Hospital that sent a cardiac ambulance, moved Mr Chaubal to its facility and harvested his kidneys, lung and also skin.
Liver and kidneys
Mr Chaubal’s liver and kidneys were harvested.
While the liver was sent to Global Hospital and transplanted into a 58-year-old, one kidney was transplanted into a 26-year-old man at Hinduja hospital itself and another was sent to Jaslok hospital where it was transplanted into a 30-year-old male.
While his family had agreed to donate his other organs too, his heart could not be harvested as his blood group did not match with the waitlisted patients at Fortis hospital that was contacted by ZTCC.
As it turned out, the heart was to come a day later from Pune.
Heart from Pune
On Tuesday morning, another life was saved when a girl from Ankleshwar, Gujarat who was suffering from Restrictive Cardiomyopathy and was admitted at Fortis Hospital got a heart from Pune.
She was waitlisted at Fortis Hospital, Mulund for over a month.
The donor heart came from a 46-year-old female donor, from Satara, who was declared brain dead at Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune following a road traffic accident that resulted in a head injury. The donor heart was transported to Fortis Hospital, Mulund, from the Pune hospital in one hour, nine minutes.
