In death, elderly saves 3 lives
NOIDA: A 74-year-old “brain-dead” man’s family kept his last wish by donating his kidneys and liver – giving a fresh lease of life to three others. Pawan Kumar, a resident of Kavi Nagar in Ghaziabad, died at a private hospital in Noida on Monday, following a blood clot in his brain.
Two of his organs – a kidney and the liver – were harvested in the hospital and transplanted on two patients in the same hospital, while a green corridor was created to ferry another kidney to another hospital for transplant.
While one kidney was donated to a 63-year-old man, the other one was transplanted in a 39-year-old woman, who had been on dialysis for the past two years.
In fact, Kumar, a resident of Kavi Nagar in Ghaziabad, was admitted first to a private hospital in Ghaziabad. After his condition worsened, he was shifted to Jaypee Hospital in Noida’s Sector 128 on Sunday night. “The patient was suffering from a blood clot in the brain. He was not responding to medical care and was declared brain dead due to haemorrhage on Monday,” said Dr Amit Devra, senior consultant, renal transplant at Jaypee. After Kumar’s family members told doctors that he had wished to donate his organs after his death, they contacted the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) about harvesting of the organs. The NOTTO told the hospital to use the liver and one kidney for two patients in Jaypee Hospital and the other kidney to be transplanted to another patient in Fortis hospital in Sector 62.