Pune: 34-Year-Old Brain-dead Woman Saves Five Lives By Donating Organs

After the family of a 34-year-old lady who was brain dead agreed to donate her organs, authorities at the hospital of the Army's southern command in Pune coordinated their efforts to guarantee that five seriously ill patients obtained fresh leases on life late on Thursday night. According to Brig. Bhupesh Goyal, deputy commandant of the Army hospital, organ transplants for two active-duty soldiers took place between Thursday night and early Friday morning.

Goyal said, "Eyes were preserved at the eye bank of the Command Hospital (Southern Command) Armed Forces Medical College complex." According to reports, a surgical team from Ruby Hall Clinic removed the liver of a hospital patient. The woman was a retired soldier's wife, and she was brain dead. She was admitted on Thursday, and after being pronounced dead, her family agreed to give her organs.

Brain-dead Woman Saves Lives

During the late evening of July 14 and the early morning hours of July 15, two Indian Army soldiers who were still on active duty received kidney transplants, eyes were saved at the CH(SC)-Armed Forces Medical College complex's eye bank, and a patient at Pune's Ruby Hall Clinic received a liver transplant.

Following conversations with the hospital's transplant coordinator, her family members decided that her organs should be donated to patients who were in urgent need of them. The hospital's transplant team was activated after receiving the required approvals, and alerts were also made to the Army Organ Retrieval and Transplant Authority and the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC) (AORTA).

Similar Cases

According to a Noida-based news portal, on July 8, a 25-year-old hospital patient who had been admitted was pronounced brain-dead as a result of intracranial bleeding. According to Mayuri Barge, the transplant coordinator, two kidneys, a liver, and both corneas were donated after the family agreed to donate his organs. At Dr D. Y. Patil's hospital, one kidney was given to a 40-year-old physician, and the other was given to a patient at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. A 65-year-old hospital doctor received a liver transplant from the man.

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At the Pimpri hospital, a 72-year-old woman received a liver transplant from the teams of Drs. Sharan Narute and Bipin Vipute. A patient at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital received one of the 56-year-old man's kidneys as a donation.