World Organ Donation Day 2019 saw Manisha Roy’s family agreeing to donate her organs on August 13 after she was declared brain dead.
In a noble gesture, the family of the 19-year-old woman, from Kolkata’s Maniktala made the poignant decision to donate her organs overcoming their obvious grief, thus keeping her memory alive by breathing a new lease of life into three moribund patients who would receive her liver and two kidneys, a press release issued by Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata said.
Working closely with the Nodal Officer for organ donation, Department of Health and Family Welfare and the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO), the organs were successfully harvested at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata (AGHL) and a green corridor facilitated by the Kolkata Police ensured that one of the donated kidneys reached SSKM Hospital in 15 minutes after it was retrieved from the donor.
At Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, the liver was transplanted in a 59-year-old man from Kolkata under the supervision of Dr. Mahesh Goenka, senior gastroenterologist and director, Institute of Gastro Sciences and Liver, (AGHL), and the other kidney was transplanted in a 30-year-old lady from Howrah in a surgery supervised by Dr. Lalit Kumar Agarwal, AGHL, the release stated.
Rana Dasgupta, CEO, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata said: “The State Health Department has been putting in relentless efforts to make the organ donation movement in the state gain momentum. Initiated on World Organ Day, the deceased transplant that took place in our hospital today, where the parents of a young woman came forward to donate her organs, bears testimony to the success of such initiatives.”
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata is a part of the Apollo Transplant Institutes (ATI) network, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive solid organ transplant programmes. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals has successfully conducted over 1,000 solid organ transplants.
(UNI)
