11 get new lease of life with organs from two in Surat

SURAT: A total of 11 people got a fresh lease of life and vision through the donated organs of two brain-dead people in the city.
Despite handling hundreds of Ganesh immersions, the city police created five green corridors to allow quick transport of the harvested organs.
The organ donation of a 40-year-old man was the first cadaver donation from the Surat Municipal Corporation-run Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research (SMIMER).The other cadaver organ donation was done in Kiran Hospital of the nine-year-old girl.
Donate Life, an NGO working for organ donation awareness, convinced the relatives of the deceased for organ donation.
The health of Riya Mistry (9), a class IV student in Valsad, deteriorated on Sep 13, after which she was admitted to a hospital. She was initially vomiting, and on Sep 14, she started having acute headache while in hospital. Following the diagnosis of brain haemorrhage, she was shifted to Kiran Hospital on Sep 15, where she was declared brain dead the next day.
Riya's foster mother, Dr. Usha Meisheri, a gynaecologist, inspired Riya's parents, Bobby and Trushna, for organ donation. Riya's two kidneys, liver, a hand, lungs, and corneas were harvested. Her one kidney was transplanted into a 13-year-old patient in the same hospital, and another kidney and liver were sent to Ahmedabad. The lungs were transplanted in a 13-year-old girl in Hyderabad. The hand was transplanted to a 15-year-old girl, a class XI student of Mumbai. The receiver had suffered an electrocution and lost one hand.
"Hand donor Riya and the receiver are the youngest in the country. Earlier, the youngest hand donor was a 14-year-old boy from Surat," said Nilesh Mandlewala, president, Donate Life.
In another case, 40-year-old Shipul Mandal, a native of Parua village of Nadia district in West Bengal and currently living in Sanki village of Kadodara, suffered brain haemorrhage after slipping from the scooter on the road from Chalthan canal to Dindoli.
His two kidneys, a liver, and heart were harvested. The heart was transplanted to a 57-year-old person from the city, while both kidneys and liver were sent to Ahmedabad.
"Since the financial condition of Mandal's family is not good, we sent his body after embalming to West Bengal. His family agreed to harvest as many organs that are useful," said Mandlewala.