AURANGABAD
: The sharp wail of a newborn baby rent the air in the maternity ward of the Dr Shankarrao Chavan government medical college and hospital in
Nanded around 6.30am on Thursday. In an ironic twist of fate, the girl child was delivered at a time when her father,
Santosh More
(28), lay brain dead in the operation theatre of the very same hospital.
Barely an hour after his baby was born, More's liver, kidneys and corneas were harvested and the doctors cut off the artificial life support he had been put on. The organs will benefit five patients in Mumbai, Aurangabad and Nanded.
More met with an accident on Tuesday and was declared brain dead. His wife,
Bhagyashree, who was in the last month of her pregnancy, was unable to bear the stress and began developing labour-like pains in the early hours of Thursday. The gynaecologists at the hospital had to deliver the child via the caesarean section. The hospital named the baby Sanjeevani.
Hospital dean Kanan Yelikar said an examination conducted after Bhagyashree complained of pain revealed that she had developed complications, which necessitated the C-section delivery. The condition of both and mother and child is normal, he added.
More's brother
Gangadhar said it was a highly emotional day for the family. "On the one hand, we witnessed a new arrival in our family and, on the other, my brother's organs were harvested to benefit five others," he said.
More's uncle Bhausaheb said the mission would have been complete had the heart had not gone waste due to a variety of reasons. The family decided to donate More's organs after learning of Nanded city's first cadaver donation around one week ago.
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