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February 2017
PUNE: The heart
and other vital organs of a brain-dead 22-year-old student were donated by his
family to four patients in Mumbai and Pune. This is this year's first heart
donation and the tenth since 2015.
The donated heart was successfully transplanted into a
29-year-old man suffering from end-stage heart disease at Kokilaben Ambani
Hospital in Mumbai.
The final year student, a resident of Sangvi, met with an
accident and was initially admitted to Medipoint Hospital. He was later shifted
to Sahyadri Speciality Hospital in Deccan Gymkhana. But he did not respond to
medication and was declared brain dead on February 24.
Soon after that, his family decided to donate his heart,
liver, kidney, eyes and skin.
A green corridor was created around 9 pm on Friday evening
from Sahyadri hospital to the Pune airport with the help of the zonal
transplant coordination center (ZTCC) and the city's traffic police team. This
was the first time that a heart was harvested at Sahyadri hospital.
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