Family members of a brain-dead person have come forward to donate organs of a victim. Liver and kidneys along with corneas of a 21-year-old engineering student are being retrieved under the State Government's Jeevan Daan programme to be transplanted to patients who needed the organs to get a new lease of life.
A. Saikumar, who would have completed his B.Tech. in mechanical engineering at the Raghu Engineering College at Dakamarri, had met with an accident on Friday. He was pillion rider of a bike being driven by his friend when a car coming from the opposite direction hit the two-wheeler near Modavalasa. Saikumar was going to his room at Tagarapuvalasa.
He was taken to King George Hospital and from there to the Care Hospital in an unconscious state. He was on ventilator and on Saturday he was declared brain dead. "When the doctors told us that Saikumar was brain dead, we asked them in what way his organs could be used and they told us about organ donation", Saikumar's friend N.M. Sandeep said.
Saikumar's friends and counsellor Indira of Care Hospital explained his father Chandrasekhar, a security guard at a bank ATM in Hyderabad and mother Kota Lakshmi who works in a hotel, that their son's organs would help some to get a new lease of life and they agreed.
The liver and one kidney will be transplanted on two different patients at the Care Hospital and one kidney is being transplanted to a patient at the Manipal Hospital. The corneas were collected by the Mohsin Eye Bank.
Doctors are examining the condition of the heart and lungs and if they are found to be fit for transplantation, they might be sent to Fortis Hospital in Bengaluru and Global Hospital in Hyderabad respectivley.
Cadaver donation under Jeevan Daan programme is gaining acceptance in society as in the two cases in the recent past in the city families of the brain dead persons had readily agreed to donate organs.
Parents of a student and family members of a lady who met with accidents some months ago had come forward to donate organs since they are aware of the fact that such a step on their part would help a few patients who had no other option but transplantation of organs to save their life.
