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Mumbai: The cadaver organ donation by the family of a truck driver, Vilas Patil (36), from Jalgaon on Thursday is the second cadaver donation in the city this year and the first in a public hospital. The city witnessed 60 deceased or cadaver donations last year, with only two donations taking place in public hospitals. Although transplants started in public hospitals over three decades ago, more donations and transplants are performed in private hospitals now.
“However, JJ Hospital has taken the lead among public hospitals by managing three deceased donations since Covid,” JJ Hospital dean Dr Pallavi Saple said on Saturday.
The truck driver sustained a severe head injury after falling from his truck while loading it at Goregaon last week. He was first taken to a local hospital but transferred to JJ Hospital a few days later. He became brain dead on Jan 8, and his family, which hadn’t heard of organ donation before, was counselled and agreed to donate all his organs.
While none of the transplants could be carried out at JJ Hospital itself, doctors said that state-run colleges are gearing up to do more transplant work. While JJ Hospital only has a kidney transplant programme, its sister organisation, St George’s Hospital near CSMT, will soon start a liver transplant programme.
A a statement issued by JJ Hospital said that CM Devendra Fadnavis recently announced a 100-day programme of various public welfare schemes, including one on organ donation. “This programme has been inaugurated with an organ donation by a brain-dead patient at JJ Medical College and Hospital. The brain-dead donor has given a new life to nine awaiting organs—from Mumbai to Chennai. With this, JJ Hospital has become the leader among all the govt hospitals in the state in the matter of organ donation,” it said. TNN
Mumbai: The cadaver organ donation by the family of a truck driver, Vilas Patil (36), from Jalgaon on Thursday is the second cadaver donation in the city this year and the first in a public hospital. The city witnessed 60 deceased or cadaver donations last year, with only two donations taking place in public hospitals. Although transplants started in public hospitals over three decades ago, more donations and transplants are performed in private hospitals now.
“However, JJ Hospital has taken the lead among public hospitals by managing three deceased donations since Covid,” JJ Hospital dean Dr Pallavi Saple said on Saturday.
The truck driver sustained a severe head injury after falling from his truck while loading it at Goregaon last week. He was first taken to a local hospital but transferred to JJ Hospital a few days later. He became brain dead on Jan 8, and his family, which hadn’t heard of organ donation before, was counselled and agreed to donate all his organs.
While none of the transplants could be carried out at JJ Hospital itself, doctors said that state-run colleges are gearing up to do more transplant work. While JJ Hospital only has a kidney transplant programme, its sister organisation, St George’s Hospital near CSMT, will soon start a liver transplant programme.
A a statement issued by JJ Hospital said that CM Devendra Fadnavis recently announced a 100-day programme of various public welfare schemes, including one on organ donation. “This programme has been inaugurated with an organ donation by a brain-dead patient at JJ Medical College and Hospital. The brain-dead donor has given a new life to nine awaiting organs—from Mumbai to Chennai. With this, JJ Hospital has become the leader among all the govt hospitals in the state in the matter of organ donation,” it said. TNN
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