PUNE: The parents of a 15-year-old brain-dead boy, a resident of Rahatani, donated his vital organs, including heart, liver and kidney, which gave a new lease of life to three patients suffering from end-stage diseases in Mumbai and Pune on Monday.
This was the 36th organ donation case in Pune this year, so far. The boy suddenly collapsed in his home in Rahatani on October 19.
He was rushed to the Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, where he was diagnosed with severe bleeding in the brain (intracranial bleeding). He underwent brain surgery and was moved to Jehangir hospital on October 21. “The body suffered from severe intracranial bleeding and was declared brain dead on October 23. The family, when approached, consented to donate his vital organs. In addition to heart, liver and kidney, the parents also donated the boy’s corneas, which benefitted two with blindness,” Gokhale said.
The boy’s father, who works for an IT company, said, “My son was very intelligent and wanted to become a scientist. He was healthy and had no underlying medical conditions. The doctors and we did everything to save him. We are happy his vital organs saved lives.” The boy’s heart was successfully transplanted into a 42-year-old man at HN Reliance hospital in Mumbai, while the boy’s liver and kidney benefitted two other patients at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Sahyadri hospital, Hadapsar branch.
“This is the third case of organ donation from a minor brain-dead donor in Pune this year. Families are rising over their grief and donating organs,” said Aarti Gokhale, the transplant coordinator of Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC), Pune branch.
