W.J. Swaminathan, a 35-year-old man from Vijayawada who was declared brain-dead at the Andhra Hospitals’ Heart and Brain Centre in the city following a road accident, gifted life to five persons, including a Palestinian woman who is undergoing treatment at the Global Hospitals, Chennai, for a respiratory ailment.
Dr. G. Krishna Murthy, CEO of the Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) State Appropriate Authority for Cadaver Transplantation (Jeevandan) told The Hindu that the man hailed from Ajitsingh Nagar and his lungs were given to the Palestinian woman as there were no other applicants.
This was processed through the Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu.
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The heart was given to a recipient at the Fortis Hospitals in Chennai, liver to a patient at the Manipal Hospital near here, one kidney to a recipient at the Vijaya Super-Speciality Hospital and another one at the Guntur City Hospital. Two corneas were also given for transplantation.
Mr. Murthy said the organs had to be allocated and transplanted within stipulated time lest they should perish and be rendered useless.
The compatibility of all organs with that of the recipients had to be ensured through human leukocyte antigen typing and other tissue tests.
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