Brain-dead man gives new life to five

SURAT: Organs harvested from a 40-year-old brain dead photographer from Navsari gave a new lease of life to five persons on Tuesday.

Sandipsinh

Desai

, a professional photographer residing in Navsari, suffered a paralysis attack on December 7. On the next day, he complaint of severe headache and was taken to a private hospital, where the MRI test confirmed severe blood clotting in the veins. He was put on ventilator, but his health deteriorated and was declared brain dead on December 11.

Dr

Ankur Rana

of Shraddha Hospital in Navsari contacted Surat-based DonateLife for contacting the family members of the brain dead patient for cadaver donation. The DonateLife volunteers visited Navsari and met Sandipsinh’s mother

Pushpaben

and convinced her for cadaver donation. Sandipsinh was the only son of Pushpaben and she readily agreed for the same. Ahmedabad-based Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research and Centre (IKDRC) team led by Dr Suresh Kumar reached Navsari and harvested the kidneys and liver, while the eyes were donated to Rotary Eye institute in Navsari.

The two kidneys were transplanted into Rakesh Shah (45) from Kadi near Mehsana and

Kanti Malitang

(26) from Palanpur.

The liver was transplanted into Ravindra Agarwal (45), a resident of Surat.