SSKM receives organs from brain dead girl through 172 km green corridor
Kolkata: Various organs were successfully retrieved from a 13-year-old brain
dead patient at a private
hospital in Durgapur on Sunday evening. After being retrieved, the organs were transported to SSKM Hospital through a green corridor, facilitated by both the city and district police.
According to a senior official of the private hospital, the process of retrieving organs started at around 4.30 pm on Sunday and concluded at around 7.30 pm. The organs are expected to reach SSKM Hospital within 10 pm.
This occurs a day after the city has witnessed a heart transplant carried out by the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital. Adequate police arrangements were made to ensure that the organs can be brought to SSKM Hospital from the Mission Hospital in Durgapur in the minimum possible time, covering a distance of around 172 kilometres.
It has been learnt from hospital sources that two kidneys, liver and corneas were donated to SSKM.
This is the first time the state is witnessing a green corridor covering a distance of 172 km, where organs were brought to the city from a far-off district. A team from SSKM Hospital went to the private hospital on Sunday afternoon, following some necessary documentation work.
The private hospital authorities had earlier urged SSKM Hospital, expressing its wish to donate some organs of the brain dead patient. The matter was also informed to the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO), which has allocated the organs to SSKM Hospital.
Director of SSKM Dr Manimoy Bandopadhay said: "Two kidneys, liver and corneas would be retrieved from a 13-year-old girl, who was declared brain dead by the private hospital. The organs would be examined after being taken to SSKM and then they would be transplanted here in the patients. We have already made necessary arrangements in this regard."
It has been learnt that Madhusmita Bayen (13) was admitted to the private hospital on November 12 and she was declared brain dead on November 17. The hospital sources said that the patient had been admitted with progressive epilepsy.
After the patient was declared brain dead, her family members agreed to donate her organs. The girl's family members have been staying in Bankura for nearly four years. They originally hail from Assam.
Dr Partha Pal, chief medical officer of Mission Hospital, Durgapur, said: "The patient was brought to the hospital in an advanced stage of epilepsy. She was declared brain dead on Saturday. Organs were successfully retrieved and they were on the way to Kolkata."
