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27-yr-old brain dead youth’s organs flown to Bengaluru

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Mangaluru: The family of a 27-year-old youth, who was declared brain dead on Monday, February 20 at A.J. Hospital, even at their time of distress chose to donate his organs, including his heart to needy recipients in Bengaluru, Manipal and Mangaluru.

This is the first instance of a heart donation at the hospital.

Satish, a carpenter by profession had met with a serious accident on February 18 near Karkala bypass. Having undergone preliminary treatment at a hospital in Karkala, he was shifted to A.J. Hospital and Research Centre on February 19.

Satish’s family expressed their desire to donate his organs, whereafter the hospital authorities notified the Zonal Co-Ordination Committee of Karnataka for Transplantation, which, in turn, sent the organ retrieval team and also alerted recipients on their list.

The team of retrieval experts first retrieved the heart and it was dispatched via a flight from Mangaluru International Airport at 7.30 p.m. to a recipient in Bengaluru’s M.S. Ramaiah Hospital.
Later, Satish’s liver was retrieved and sent by another flight to a recipient in Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru. One kidney was sent to the Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, while the other was transplanted to a patient admitted at A.J. Hospital, the release said.

Satish was the youngest of the three children of Raghava Achar and Sulochana, the release said.

27-yr-old brain dead youth's organs flown to Bengaluru

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