Organs harvested from brain-dead man in Tiruchi GH helps seven patients

Organs harvested by a team of surgeons from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) in Tiruchi from a brain-dead patient helped seven people on Wednesday.

According to an official statement, a 27-year-old man from Karur district was admitted to the hospital’s emergency department in the early hours of September 2 with a grievous head injury. He was declared brain-dead the next day and upon being counselled, the bereaved family agreed to donate his organs.

As per the norms of the Transplant Authority of Tamil Nadu (Transtan), the hospital’s surgeons harvested his liver, heart, eyes, kidneys, and skin tissue. This was the 24th such operation at the hospital.

One of the harvested kidneys was transplanted to a 32-year-old patient who had been undergoing dialysis at the hospital for the past four years. The kidney transplant was the 44th such procedure conducted at the hospital.

Eyes were donated to patients at the hospital. The transplant surgeries performed by the medical team were successful, and the patients were recovering well, according to the release.

The other kidney was given to a patient at the Thanjavur Medical College and Hospital, and the heart was sent to a patient at a private hospital in Chennai. The skin tissue and liver were donated to patients at private hospitals in Madurai.