PANAJI
The team of Goa Medical College and Hospital, Bambolim performed a successful kidney transplant on two renal failure patients utilizing the kidneys harvested from a 62-year-old brain dead donor. Both the patients are now stable and are in recovery.
The organs were allocated as per the ‘waiting list of the ‘Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Programme’, under “Nave Jivit” (new life), the ‘Deceased Donor Organ Transplant Programme’ of State Organ and tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO)- Goa.
Health Minister thanked the donor’s family and said, “We as a state are grateful to the family and daughters of the deceased for donating organs which resulted in saving the lives of three people. Under SOTTO-Goa, we will soon try to start a liver transplant facility in the state and in super speciality block we will dedicate one entire floor for kidney and liver transplant so that retrieved organs could be utilised in the state.”
He pointed out that as Goa only has a kidney transplant facility, the programme aims to maximize organ utilization and minimize organ wastage.
Allocation of the liver, on the other hand, was done by ROTTO SOTTO Maharashtra to IKDRC Hospital, Ahmadabad, Gujarat as per the waiting list.
Dr Bandekar said, “There is a misconception among the people that in GMC organs are retrieved in the morgue from the already dead patient which is totally wrong, once the patient is declared brain dead, the time till retrieval of organs is very critical and the donor has to be given special treatment to maintain the organs.”
GMC team highlighted the fact that one brain dead donor can save up to eight lives by donating organs and improve the life of 75 other people through tissue donation.
As per the recent statistics of the transplant trends in India, as against 1.6 lakh persons awaiting a transplant, only 12,000 organs are available. In Goa, there are 41 patients registered for a kidney transplant.
