Organs harvested from accident victim save lives of many

Organs harvested from a brain-dead roadworthy mishap unfortunate by a squad of doctors astatine Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) successful Tiruchi helped prevention lives connected Thursday.

According to an authoritative release, a antheral successful his thirties from Kalladai colony successful Karur territory was admitted to MGMGH connected January 18 with a encephalon haemorrhage helium suffered erstwhile helium was injured successful a roadworthy mishap connected January 17. When the diligent did not respond to treatment, helium was declared encephalon dead.

With counseling and the consent of the bereaved family, arrangements were made to harvest the eyes, kidneys, liver, and tegument insubstantial from the antheral arsenic per the norms of Tamil Nadu Transplant Authority (TRANSTAN) by MGMGH.

Under the guidance of S. Kumaravel, dean, K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College, MGMGH, renal surgeon Jayprakash Narayanan, and others, connected Thursday 1 of the harvested kidneys was transplanted into a diligent who had been undergoing dialysis astatine the infirmary for the past 2 years. The eyes were transplanted to a beneficiary astatine the Tiruchi infirmary arsenic well.

The different kidney was sent to the Thanjavur Government Medical College portion the liver was sent to a diligent astatine a backstage infirmary successful Perambalur. The tegument insubstantial was sent to a backstage infirmary successful Madurai, said the release.

The mortal remains of the organ donor were laid to remainder with afloat honours.