Increasing awareness among city people towards organ donations which saved lives of many critical patients undergoing treatment in various hospitals across the country, today once again prompted family members of a brain dead woman to donate vital functional organs of her body to the needy patients.
Subsequent to approval from the family members of the deceased, two green corridors were created in the city by the district administration under the leadership of divisional commissioner Sanjay Dube. The first green corridor was created from Bombay Hospital to Medanta hospital at 10.30 am to facilitate speedy transportation of harvested liver, while the second green corridor was created between Bombay Hospital to Choithram hospital at 11.30 am to facilitate transportation of kidney.
According to Indore divisional Sanjay Dube, liver and kidneys harvested from the body of deceased were transplanted in patients at Medanta and Choithram hospital, while eyes of the deceased were given to MK International Eye Bank and skin to Choithram hospital.
The deceased identified as Sanjana Nagar (38), wife of Manohar Nagar, a native of Jaitpura village in Dewas district had been admitted to Bombay hospital few days back following a road mishap. However, doctors attending her declared her first brain dead on Wednesday at 12.50 pm. later in the evening at 7.7 pm she was again declared second brain dead by the hospital doctors.
Soon after the patient was declared brain dead by the hospital doctors, the volunteers of Muskan Group and the group's convenor Sandeepan Arya contacted family members of the deceased and encouraged them for organ donations which according to them have saved many lives.
After getting approval from the family members late Wednesday evening, the process of contacting the needy persons registered in NOTO was started by the authorities concerned and accordingly patients were identified at Bombay hospital, Medanta hospital and Choithram hospital of the city, Dube said adding that subsequent to identification of patients, livers and kidneys were harvested by the doctors at Bombay hospital from deceased's body before it was transported to different city hospitals through green
corridor.