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Doctors astatine the State-run Visakha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS) connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) harvested the organs of a 50-year-old brain-dead pistillate and sent them to assorted hospitals for transplantation to recipients connected the A.P. Jeevandan seniority list.
The pistillate identified arsenic K. Annapurna was crossing the roadworthy adjacent Hanumanthawaka junction, connected Saturday (October 11), erstwhile she was deed by a motorcycle, and sustained terrible injuries. She was shifted to VIMS, wherever doctors tried to revive her, but her information deteriorated and a squad of doctors declared her brain-dead.
The doctors counselled her household members connected the value of organ donation and aft support they informed Dr. K. Rambabu, A.P. Jeevandan State Coordinator and Director of VIMS, who cleared the mandatory approvals.
The doctors harvested liver, lungs and cornea from the unfortunate and allotted them to assorted hospitals based connected Jeevandan protocol. With this, the VIMS has go the lone infirmary successful the State authorities assemblage to harvest the organs of six encephalon dormant persons, truthful far. It besides holds the unsocial favoritism of being the lone authorities infirmary successful the State to person conducted a liver transplant.
Dr. Rambabu has called for consciousness among the radical connected the value of organ donation and the request to dispel myths. There were astir 5,000 terminally sick patients waiting for donor organs successful A.P. He thanked the donor household members for agreeing to donate, the metropolis constabulary for arranging a Green Channel to the airdrome for timely proscription of the harvested organs and the aesculapian team.
