Brain dead person’s liver flown in from Guntur

April 19, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:46 am IST - HYDERABAD:

A donor liver from a 54-year-old road accident victim in Guntur, Dhanamma, was flown in to Hyderabad by Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) in collaboration with State-run Jeevandan, the organ donation programme, on Saturday.

The traffic police provided a green channel between Shamshabad international airport and Secunderabad, which enabled the ambulance carrying the donor liver to be transported within 40 minutes. The ambulance with the donor organ and transplant specialists started at RGIA Shamshabad at around 6.30 p.m. and reached KIMS Hospital on Minister Road by 7.10 p.m., hospital officials said. By 8 p.m., a team of surgeons, nurses and paramedical staff led by surgical gastroenterologist, KIMS, Dr. M.B.V. Prasad, started the transplant surgery on a needy patient. The 54-year deceased, Dhanamma, a resident of Mangalgiri, Guntur, was declared brain dead on Saturday morning.

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