With the creation of two more green corridors in the city to save lives across the country, the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh is fast catching up with other major cities to become the organ donation capital of the country.
On Tuesday a liver and a kidney harvested from a 42-year old brain-dead man were transported via two green corridors to their destinations for transplants in two patients, one of them in Delhi.
Of the two green corridors - freeways without red lights - one 13-km long green corridor from Choithram Hospital to the city airport was created, facilitating transportation of the harvested liver from the hospital to the airport in just 7.5 minutes. Another 10-km long corridor was laid from Choithram hospital to Greater Kailash hospital by which a kidney was carted out in 7 minutes, said Divisional Commissioner Sanjay Dubey while talking to The Pioneer.
While the liver was transplanted to a patient at Medanta hospital in Gurgaon, out of two kidneys which was harvested from the body of the deceased one kidney was transplanted to a patient at Greater Kailash hospital, while the other was transplanted on a patient at Choithram hospital. Doctors at Choithram hospital also harvested eyes and skin of the deceased and it would be used locally. The donor, Vishwas Doshi (40), a native of Mahidpur, was suffering from heart disease for the past two months. He was undergoing treatment at Medanta Hospital in the city. However, doctors attending on him declared him brain dead on Monday.
After due counseling, family members of the deceased agreed to donate his organs to the needy after talks. Subsequently, his body was sent to Choithram hospital for harvesting of his organs. On the basis of his blood group, three patients were identified, one for liver transplantation at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon, while two patients were identified locally - one at Greater Kailash Hospital and another at Choithram Hospital for transplantation of kidneys, Dubey said, adding that after harvesting of organs, a team of Medanta Hospital airlifted liver to Delhi, while one kidney of the deceased was transported to Greater Kailash hospital in the city where it was transplanted on a patient. Of the remaining organs, one kidney was transplanted in a patient at Choithram hospital.
This was the second time in the past two months that two green corridors were created simultaneously in the city to transport organs. Earlier in November last year, two separate green corridors were created simultaneously, for the first time in the country for separate transport of a liver and a kidney, donated by kin of a 59-year old man, for their transplantation in two persons.
In last four months, five green corridors have been created in the city to transport human organs to different parts of the country. According to the Indore Organ Donation Society, the city now is ranked second amongst cities when a sum total is calculated for eye, skin and cadaver donations. It’s indeed a big feat for Indore, where only one body had been donated in 2009, said Indore divisional commissioner, who is also chairman of the Indore Organ Donation society.
After 2009, the city had witnessed second donation of a body in 2014 when body of an elderly woman was donated to Mahatma Gandhi Medical College for medical research. However, the city witnessed real kick in organ donation towards the end of 2015 when for the first time a Green Corridor was created in the city in October last year to transport a liver from Choithram hospital to the city airport within 10 minutes for its airlifting to New Delhi where it was transplanted to a patient at Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon.