Mumbai: Several critically ill patients received a new lease of life on Sunday when they received organs from two women from Ahmednagar, aged 40 and 53, who died on Saturday.
In the first case, the family of the 40-year-old Mulund resident, who suffered from a brain stroke, donated her heart, liver, lungs and kidneys. While the heart and liver were transplanted to a 24-year-old man — the first case of two donor organs being given to one patient — her lungs were sent to Fortis Hospital in Chennai. The latter was the first instance of Mumbai sending donor lungs to another city.
The donor was admitted to Fortis Hospital in Mulund Fortis Hospital on February 22, and was declared brain dead on Saturday. A housewife, she is survived by her husband and a son, aged six.
In the second case, the 53-year-old woman had complained of severe headache. She was admitted to a local hospital, but when her condition worsened, she was shifted to Jupiter Hospital in Thane on February 20. On Saturday, doctors declared her brain dead. Her husband, a volunteer with slain anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar’s Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, knew about organ donation. He willingly agreed to donate all organs and tissues. However, doctors could not retrieve her heart and lungs. Her kidneys, liver, corneas and skin were taken.
