Pune: 49 Year Old Brain-Dead Engineer Saves Five Lives, Donates Heart, Kidneys, Corneas
Pune: 49 Year Old Brain-Dead Engineer Saves Five Lives, Donates Heart, Kidneys, Corneas
Pune 18 March 2025: A 49 year old male patient declared brain dead at a city hospital following a road accident in Mundhwa gave a new lease of life to five patients by donating heart, kidneys as well as corneas. The heart was sent to a hospital in Mumbai, one kidney was sent to a hospital in baner while the other one was transplanted at a hospital in Hadapsar on a female patient with chronic kidney disease.Corneas were sent to an eye bank in Pune
The 49-year-old male engineer by profession, a pedestrian, had met with a road accident on the night of 13th March after which he was brought to the hospital in Hadapsar. Dr. H K Sale, Executive Director of the hospital said that the patient had suffered serious head injury and was declared brain dead on the night of 14th March. His family consented to an organ donation post in which his heart, kidneys and corneas were retrieved on 15th March in the evening and sent via a green corridor. One of the kidneys was transplanted on a 62 year old female patient suffering from chronic kidney disease.
The team of doctors and staff involved in retrieving included Dr. Vikram Satav, Dr Sangeeta Chandrashekhar, Medical Administrator Dr Raj Kodre along with Medical social worker Mr. Abhijeet Deshmukh, Pravin Jadhav, transplant coordinator Vishal Torade
The team of doctors in the kidney transplant at the Hospital included Dr. Vikram Satav, Dr Shashikant Asabe , Anesthetist Dr sangeeta Chandrashekhar, Dr Nilesh Wasmatkar and Nephrologists Dr Avinash Ignatius and Rakesh Shinde.
Dr. Divij Mane, Director of the Hospital said that we salute the family members of the deceased who consented to the organ donation. Their selfless act of kindness has helped rejuvenate the lives of those seeking transplantation and their families with the ‘gift of life’.
Dr Dileep Mane, Chairman and Managing Director said that we would also like to thank the ZTCC Pune for smooth coordination, traffic police Mundhawa, Hadapsar police station senior PI for preparing the green corridor to transport the organs to various hospitals with zeal and diligence.
