Liver Transplanted

 A third cadaver liver transplant
took place in the city on Sunday when a
young donor's organ was transported to
Ruby Hall Clinic from Aurangabad
through a green corridor on a 230-km
stretch.
. . The road journey between Aurangabad and
Pune that would have taken five hours
was accomplished in 2 hours and 45
minutes with coordinated efforts from
doctors, the traffic police, the district
administration and ancillary staff.
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. The donor was a road accident victim from
Aurangabad and the recipient a 50-year-
old man in Pune. The donor was declared
brain dead on Friday night. His other vital
organs, including the heart and two
kidneys were retrieved on Sunday morning.
His heart was flown to Chennai and the
two kidneys were transplanted into two
patients in Aurangabad.
"The liver got allocated to Ruby Hall
Clinic from Aurangabad-based Zonal
Transplant Coordination Committee
(ZTCC) on Saturday afternoon,"
transplant coordinator Surekha Joshi of
Ruby Hall Clinic said.
. . The hospital's chief transplant surgeons
Manish Varma and Kamlesh Bokil
hastened to Seth Nandlal Dhoot Hospital
in Aurangabad for retrieving the liver of
Rambhau Ubale (28), a resident of Wai
village in Mantha taluka in Jalna district.
. . Ubale had sustained severe head injuries in
a road accident in Jalna district on
February 18. He was brought to a private
hospital in Aurangabad. Efforts were made
to revive him, but he was declared brain-
dead on Friday night (February 18). When
contacted by the hospital organ donation
coordinator, his wife and other family
members agreed to donate his organs.
. . "The retrieval began at 9.30am on Sunday.
The man's heart was retrieved by a team
from Chennai. The liver, kept in an organ
preservative solution, reached us in our
ambulance in less than three hours
through the green corridor. The recipient
was suffering from liver cirrhosis for eight
years," transplant physician Sheetal
Mahajani, chief of transplant department
at Ruby Hall Clinic, said.
. . Post-retrieval, the heart must be
transplanted in four hours and liver in 12
hours.
 The accident victim was declared officially
brain dead on Saturday at 2.30pm,
Aurangabad ZTCC chairman Sudhir
Kulkarni said.
. . Chief surgeon and Seth Nandlal Dhoot
hospital CEO, Vijay Borgaonkar said
Ubale's heart, liver and two kidneys that
were harvested on Sunday were
transplanted. For the first time, the heart
had travelled 1,000 km, the longest, from
Aurangabad to Chennai, he added.
. . Search for recipients
. . State health officials and the ZTCC
authorities of Pune, Mumbai and Chennai
decided that the liver would go to Mumbai
(Global Hospital), while the heart and
lungs would be taken to Chennai's Global
Hospital and the kidneys to two hospitals
in Aurangabad.
. . "However, the patient's condition in
Chennai, who was to get both the heart
and the lungs, deteriorated. But the Tamil
Nadu ZTCC recommended the heart
donations to Fortis Hospital in Chennai.
The recipient was a young boy of 17 years,
the son of a navy official. The harvesting
of the lungs was dropped since no
recipient could be identified within such
short period," a state health official said.
The liver came to Pune because the
Mumbai patient's condition deteriorated.
This is the second time that liver went to
Pune from Aurangabad within a month's
span, the official added.
. . One kidney was transplanted into a 45-
year-old resident of Aurangabad, who was
on peritoneal dialysis for the past five
years, while the other renal transplant was
done on a 34-year-old patient from Jalna
who was suffering from end-stage renal
disease.