Accident victim donates organs through traffic-free ‘Green Corridor’ in Mangalore

May 18: Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute performed its first cadaveric organ donation and transportation of live organs on Friday. Fourty eight-year-old Chandrashekar who met with an accident in Kasargod on May 11 and declared brain-dead at the hospital on May 16 was the cadaveric donor of the organs. Chandrashekar’s wife Nagaveni compassionately came forward to donate his organs to needy recipients. In accordance with their wishes the donor’s eyes, heart valves, liver and both kidneys were harvested after fulfilling all mandatory procedures and protocols in co-ordination with Jeeva Sarthakathe, the nodal body set up by state government to oversee the implementation of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994.
Indiana Hospital’s Transplant Coordinator Sangeetha Lobo said that Donor’s heart valves and liver were transplanted to recipients at Bengaluru-based Fortis Hospital. One of the kidneys was given to a recipient at KMC Hospital in Manipal. The other kidney was transplanted to a recipient at Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute. The eyes were also transplanted to recipients locally. A surgical team led by Dr Abhijit (Urologist) and Dr Pradeep, (Nephrologist of Indiana Hospital) and Dr Yashwanth (surgeon from Fortis Hospital) performed the organ donation surgery.
Mangalore City Police facilitated the traffic-free ‘Green Corridor’ for the safe and speedy transportation of the first batch of harvested organs from the hospital campus at Mahaveer (Pumpwell) Circle to the airport and a skyjet airplane carried the organs to Bengaluru at 5.15 pm.