70-year-old’s organs give fresh lease of life to two people

A 70-year-old lady’s organ gave a new lease of lives to two people at the Command Hospital EC (Eastern Command).

The hospital carried out two cadaver kidney transplants on a 30-year-old serving soldier and a 28-year-old wife of a serving soldier suffering from kidney failure on April 17.

The Eastern Command of the Indian Army shared that a deceased 70-year-old lady, resident of Birbhum district, succumbed to brain hemorrhage and was declared brain dead at Command Hospital on April 16. Followed by which her son, a soldier posted in Uttar Pradesh, consented for her organ donation. According to the report from the kidney transplant team of Command Hospital, both the transplant recipients are doing well.

This is the second cadaveric organ donation at Command Hospital after the first one in August 2020. It is also the second cadaveric donor kidney transplant done at Command Hospital where both the pair of donor kidneys were simultaneously retrieved and successfully transplanted by the kidney transplant team. With this, a total of 207 kidney transplants-195 living donors and 12 cadaveric donors-have been done since the inception of the transplant programme in 1998.Incidentally, the World Kidney Day which was recently celebrated on March 9 at Command Hospital also stressed upon pledging for organ donation after brain death and felicitated the families of organ donors.