Mangaluru: Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute will organize a cadaveric organ donation and transport of live organs at 4:15 p.m, on May 17 from the hospital premises, at Pumpwell, Mangalore. Mangaluru City Police would be providing traffic free ‘Green Corridor’ for the safe and speedy transportation of the harvested organs to Mangaluru Airport for onward journey to Bengaluru by flight.
Chandrashekhar, a 48-year-old victim of road accident from Kasargod is the cadaveric donor of the organs. He met with a fatal accident on May 11 and was declared brain dead last midnight. Subsequently, his family decided to donate his organs to needy recipients. In accordance with their wishes the donor’s eyes, heart valves, liver and both kidneys are being harvested after fulfilling all mandatory procedures and protocols in co-ordination with Jeeva Sarthakathe, the nodal body appointed by Government of Karnataka to oversee the implementation of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994.
Donor’s heart valves and liver will be transplanted to recipients at Fortis Hospital, Bangalore. One of the kidneys will be given to a recipient at KMC Hospital, Manipal, while the other kidney will be transplanted to a recipient at the host hospital Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute. The eyes will be transplanted to recipients locally.
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