Tiruchi Government Hospital team harvests organs from deceased patient
According to an official press release, the male patient from K. Chinnathampatti, Dindigul district, was admitted to MGMGH in Tiruchi in the early hours of July 6 with spinal cord haemorrhage. When the patient did not respond to treatment, brain death was declared at 11.45 p.m. Upon being counselled, the bereaved family agreed to donate the organs of the deceased.
As per the norms of Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN), the government hospital's surgeons harvested the deceased patient's kidneys and liver.
In an operation led by nephrologist Jayaprakash Narayan on Tuesday, a team of doctors, under the guidance of S. Kumaravel, dean, K.A.P.V. Government Medical College, transplanted one of the harvested kidneys to a 30-year-old patient at MGMGH, who had been undergoing dialysis for the past two years and was enrolled on the TRANSTAN waiting list. The kidney transplant was the 42nd such procedure conducted at the hospital, and was carried out free of charge under the Chief Minister's Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme, said the release.
The other kidney was sent to a renal patient at Thanjavur Medical College Hospital, and the liver was donated to a person receiving treatment at a private facility in Thanjavur.
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