AHMEDABAD:
Mittal Prajapati, a 35-year-old resident of
Amraiwadi
, died in a road accident earlier this week. In her death, though, she gave life to five people. Her heart was flown to Kolkata for transplant.
Following her accident, Mittal was moved to Civil Hospital where doctors declared her brain-dead.
Medical superintendent Rakesh Joshi said that a team of counsellors informed her relatives and asked if they wished to donate her organs. “The family including her husband Bharat Prajapati understood the importance of the gesture and agreed to donat,” he said, adding that it was the second heart that was harvested in the past 19 days for the hospital.
Dr Pranjal Modi, coordinator of State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization, said that Mittal’s heart, two kidneys, liver and pancreas gave life to five patients. “We first checked with a local hospital, but as the criteria was not met, we announced the availability to national group after which we got a confirmation from Kolkata.”
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