Doctors at the BGS Global Hospital in Bengaluru are stabilising the organs of Kale Gowda (50), a brain-dead patient, who was shifted to the hospital from the State-run K.R. Hospital in Mysuru on Friday night by arranging a “green corridor” with support from the Mysuru city police to facilitate harvesting of his organs. Gowda, who met with an accident in Kodagu recently, was first treated at a private hospital here and later shifted to K.R. Hospital.
After the doctors confirmed that the patient was brain-dead, the family members came forward to donate his organs and decided to move him to the Bengaluru hospital, which is equipped to salvage the organs and transplant the same to needy patients.
Sources at the BGS Global Hospital told The Hindu that the functioning of the patient’s vital organs were being stabilised and would be retrieved once they become stable. “A final call on salvaging the patient’s organs may be taken on Sunday,” the sources said, adding that the patient’s heart cannot be harvested due to some medical reasons since the patient had crossed 50 years. However, other organs like eyes, kidneys and liver could be recovered for the transplant, they said.
Sources also said the organs would be transplanted to patients needing it. The transplant recipients would be decided once the organs become stable and fulfil medical conditions. The patient, who belongs to Hassan district, is on life-support system.
The Mysuru police, in a swift move, heeded a request by the patient’s family and arranged for a pilot vehicle to accompany the ambulance sent by the Bengaluru hospital for transporting the patient. Accordingly, a green corridor was set up between Mysuru and Kengeri in Bengaluru for hurriedly transporting the patient, clearing the traffic.
‘Functioning of patient’s vital organs are being stabilised and will be retrieved once they
become stable’
