Teacher dies in accident, injured son gives consent for organ donation

Nagpur: A retired teacher, who died due to severe injuries in a road accident, on Monday provided a new lease of life to three patients and vision to two.
Dayanand Sahare, who retired from Kisan Vidyalaya in Gadchiroli district as a senior teacher, met with an accident near Armori (Gadchiroli). His son Piyush also sustained injuries in the accident. While Piyush was admitted to GMCH, Nagpur, Dayanand was shifted to Vidarbha Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS), Kamptee Road.
In spite of all the treatment, his condition neurologically deteriorated, and he was declared brain dead on Sunday. After counselling from Dr Hari Gupta and Prarthana Dwivedi, Dayanand’s wife Vanita and another son Bhupesh, a computer engineer, readily agreed to donate the organs.
Piyush too gave his consent and attended the ‘honour corridor’ created for his departed father at VIMS hospital. Kidneys, liver and eyes were donated to needy patients in the city only. One of the kidneys was transplanted in a 17-year-old girl at New Era Hospital.
Dr Vibhavari Dani, president of the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC) Nagpur, said that the family had agreed to donate the heart too. “It was allocated 67-year-man to MGM Healthcare, Chennai. A team of doctors from Chennai inspected the heart here, they found it unfit for transplant,” said Dr Dani. Had it been retrieved, it would have been second heart retrieval from Nagpur.
Dr Sanjay Kolte, honorary secretary of the ZTCC Nagpur, told TOI that it was the first organ donation in VIMS Hospital. “More and more hospitals in city are joining the noble cause of organ donation. The ones that happened in the Organ Donation Week has special significance,” he said.
ZTCC coordinator Veena Vathore, VIMS administration head Dr Mona Hinduja, Dr Girish Thakre, Dr Minakshi Hande, Dr Nitin Hhandelwal, Dr Vinay Kalbande, Dr Vivek Agrawal, Dr Rajesh Singhania, and staff of the VIMS hospital paid tributes to the donor and created honour corridor.
ORGAN DONATION
Brain dead donor | Dayanand Jiwanji Sahare (58)
Consent givers | Sons Bhupesh, Piyush and wife Vanita
Liver | Donated to a 68-year-old man at Meditrina Hospital
First kidney | Donated to 63-year-old woman at Wockhardt Hospital
Second kidney | Donated to 17-year-old girl at New Era Hospital
Eyes | Donated to GMCH Eye Bank
Heart | Found unfit for donation by a team of experts