The government medical college and hospital, Aurangabad has become the first government medical institute in Maharashtra to retrieve the heart of a brain-dead person for transplantation along with his liver, kidneys and corneas.
A 27-year-old construction worker met with an accident on the night of February 23. Though he was immediately admitted at a hospital, his condition didn’t improve. Next day at 7 pm, he was admitted at the government hospital where his brain stopped functioning. On February 25, after counselling, the relatives of the donor agreed to the donation. A group of five doctors held the first meeting to conduct their first medical assessment on the condition of the patient. After their second assessment, the patient was finally declared brain-dead at 9 pm.
His heart has been donated to Chennai, liver to Pune, both kidneys were taken by two hospitals in Aurangabad and his corneas were sent to the Cornea Bank.
The donor was undergoing treatment under Dr Jeevan Rajput, consultant neurosurgeon; Dr Sarojani Jadhav, head of the surgery department and Dr Suresh Harbade, general surgeon at the hospital.
“Later, we informed authorities and NGOs who call the hospitals to retrieve the organs of the patients. This is for the first time that in a government medical college, a donor’s corneas, kidneys, liver and heart have been retrieved,” said Dr Rajput.
