Donating an organ: two offer four people a fresh lease on life upon death

Two brain-dead donors who had died from cerebral hemorrhage had their kidneys replaced by medical professionals at a private hospital in Sector 62. One kidney each from the donors was given to the receivers, two renal failure patients, a 48-year-old lady from Karnal and a 66-year-old man from Chandigarh.

A 65-year-old man from Chandigarh and a 59-year-old woman from Leh-Ladakh were the donors. Their families made the decision to provide 10 critically ill patients, who need four kidney, two liver, and four corneal transplants, “the gift of life.” The multi-organ retrieval procedure took around 14 hours in all, and to make it easier to transfer the organs, a green corridor was built from Mohali to Delhi, Mohali to Jaipur, and Mohali to Ludhiana.

The Organ Allocation Policy of SOTTO (State Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organization), which operates under the auspices of ROTTO (regional) and NOTTO (national), which oversees the state’s organ donation procedures, was responsible for allocating two more kidney transplants at a hospital in Ludhiana. At the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Jaipur and the Super Specialty Hospital in New Delhi, two livers were transplanted. Four corneas were successfully transplanted into four distinct patients at the PGIMER in Chandigarh. Dr. Gagneen Kaur, the Punjab SOTTO Nodal Officer, made this possible.

The medical director of Fortis Mohali, Dr. Vikramjit Singh, praised the families’ efforts and stated, “This is an inspiring, selfless act on the part of the families to have given their consent for organ donation.”