Brain-dead man's kidneys give life to two patients in Pune

PUNE: A 65-year-old brain dead man's organs saved two lives. His family mebers donated his organs at the Command Hospital in Pune on March 15. He was the father of an Army man.
While one of his kidneys was transplanted into a the wife (36) of an Army jawan at the Command Hospital, another kidney was donated to a male patient admitted at a private hospital in Nashik.
"The senior citizen suffered extensive brain damage following an accident and was found to be brain dead when brought to the hospital. His vital organs such as his heart, kidneys, liver, eyes and lungs were still functioning. These organs would have started to fail after a variable period of brain death," the army authorities said, on Friday.
The hospital staff approached the patient's family and explained the situation of the two other patients, following which the family consented to donate the kidneys. The humane act of the family members of the deceased saved the lives of two patients, an army officer said.
Prior to this, on February 11, the heart of a 40-year-old brain-dead veteran was flown to Pune in a special plane of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from New Delhi and transplanted into the wife of a serving soldier at the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS).