THE city witnessed its 38th cadaver donation this year and the lives of three people, suffering from chronic kidney failure and liver ailment, were saved after the death of a 48-year-old man at suburban Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. The deceased’s family agreed to donate both his kidneys and his liver on November 6. Later, permissions were taken from state authorities to conduct a transplant.

According to Kokilaben Hospital, the man was admitted to the hospital on October 29 and was declared brain dead on November 4. “He was suffering from hematoma in brain, which is a blood clot outside the blood vessels,” said Dr Rekha Barot, transplant co-ordinator at the hospital.

Cadaver donation is organ donation when a person suffers from brain stem death.

The hospital counselled the family over the next two days, after which the family gave consent to donate his kidneys and liver on November 6.

“Permissions were immediately taken from the Zonal Transplant Coordination Center (ZTCC). By 12.30 am, we started conducting the transplants,” Barot added.

One kidney was transplanted into a 57-year-old woman at Kokilaben hospital and the second kidney was sent to Bombay hospital. The liver was transplanted into a 39-year-old male at Kokilaben hospital. According to ZTCC officials, this year the donations have been the maximum, beating total donor count in previous years in the same period.

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