Doctors at the BGS Global Hospital in Bengaluru are in the process of stabilising the organs of Kalle Gowda (50), a brain-dead patient, who was shifted to the hospital from the State-run K.R. Hospital in Mysuru on Friday night after setting up a ‘green corridor’ between the two cities for transporting the body.
Gowda, who reportedly met with an accident in Kodagu recently, was first treated at a private hospital here and later moved to K.R. Hospital. After the doctors confirmed the patient was “brain-dead”, family members came forward to donate his organs and decided to move him to the Bengaluru hospital.
Sources at BGS Global Hospital told The Hindu that the functioning of the patient’s vital organs were at present being stabilised and would be retrieved once they become stable.
“A final call on when to retrieve the organs may be taken by Sunday morning,” the source said, adding the patient’s heart cannot be harvested since the patient had crossed 50 years of age. However, other organs like the eyes, kidney and liver could be retrieved, they added.
The hospital confirmed that the patient was brought in by 10.30 p.m. on Friday night, in an ambulance from Mysuru with the Mysuru City Police providing a pilot vehicle for clearing the traffic for rushing the patient in the quickest possible time. The ambulance had left Mysuru around 8 p.m.
Meanwhile, sources in K.R. Hospital said the patient was discharged against medical advice. “The patient was on life support and the family requested his discharge so they could rush him to Bengaluru for donating his organs,” the sources said.
