The heart from a 27-year-old carpenter, who was declared brain dead here on Monday, was among the organs to be transplanted to recipients in Bengaluru, Manipal and Mangaluru.
According to a press release from the A.J. Hospital and Research Centre, the 27-year-old Satish, a resident of Moodbidri, suffered grievous injury in a road accident near Karkala bypass on February 18.
After treatment in a hospital in Karkala, Satish was brought to the A.J. Hospital on February 19.
Family’s wish
Satish’s father Raghava Achar, also a carpenter, and other family members expressed their wish to donate the organs of Satish.
Retrieval team
The hospital authorities informed the Zonal Co-Ordination Committee of Karnataka for Transplantation, which, in turn, sent the organ retrieval team and also alerted recipients on their list. The team of retrieval experts first retrieved the heart and sent it by a flight from Mangaluru International Airport at 7.30 p.m. to a recipient in Bengaluru’s M.S. Ramaiah Hospital.
Then, the liver was retrieved and sent by another flight to a recipient in Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru. One kidney was sent to the Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, while the other was transplanted to a patient admitted at A.J. Hospital, the release said.
Satish was the youngest of the three children of Raghava Achar and Sulochana, the release said.
