KOCHI: A young man from Karnataka is set to get the hands of a 51-year-old brain dead man from Kollam at a private hospital in Kochi.
Donor Vinod died while he was undergoing treatment following a road accident at Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. Vinod was injured in an accident involving a motorbike and a bus on December 30. He was treated at a private hospital in Kollam and later shifted to the medical college. Doctors confirmed that Vinod was brain dead on Tuesday night and his relatives decided to donate his organs. The process was completed through the state government’s mortuary scheme.
A team of four doctors from Amrita hospital led by Dr Subramanya Iyer, head, department of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Centre for Plastic Surgery, reached the medical college on Wednesday morning to collect the hands. The donor’s hands were then airlifted in a helicopter from Thiruvananthapuram to Kochi and it landed at the helipad owned by LuLu Group at Edappally at 5pm. From there, the doctors returned to Amrita hospital in an ambulance, with the police ensuring that there was not much congestion on the road.
At the time of going to the press, the doctors at the hospital were working on the hand transplant of the Karnataka native.
