Kolkata: SSKM Hospital has successfully performed kidney transplants on two male patients in the hospital on Wednesday night.
According to the hospital sources, two kidneys which were extracted from a female patient declared brain dead by the state health department in a private hospital off
EM Bypass, have been transplanted in two patients of SSKM Hospital.
The SSKM Hospital authorities have not yet divulged the identity of the patients.
They said the two patients who have received the kidneys are 22 and 54 years old respectively. They have been under constant monitoring. The liver of the donor could not be retrieved due to the non-availability of suitable recipients.
According to SSKM sources, two corneas which were extracted from the donor have been given to a private eye hospital group.
A 63-year-old female patient, Sucheta Sarkar was admitted to a private hospital at Mukundupur on April 1 with a Spontaneous Intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage. She was under conservative management and she was showing signs of brainstem death.
On April 4, a team of Neurologists, Intensivists and Anaesthetists from the private hospital examined the patient under the supervision of an observer from the Department of Health at Swasthya Bhawan. After a thorough examination, they declared the patient brain-stem dead.
After deliberation, the patient's family members consented to donate her organs for life-saving transplants. The Additional Director of Health Services and Nodal Officer for Organ Transplant Govt of West Bengal coordinated the entire process of declaration of brain death and carried out counselling of relatives of the patient.
They also conducted the appropriate procedure needed for donating organs to different recipients as per the waiting lists.
The organs were retrieved in the private hospital at around 11 pm on Wednesday and transported to SSKM immediately for transplant.
In this particular case, both kidneys were dedicated to IPGMER/SSKM Hospital. The liver could not be retrieved due to non-availability of recipients. The heart was found to be clinically unfit for transplantation.