New Delhi: A 53-year-old man suffering from end-stage liver disease got a fresh lease of life when he received an organ from a 30-year-old man who died on Tuesday in a road mishap in Lucknow.
The donor was declared brain dead at King George's Medical College (KGMC) in the Uttar Pradesh state capital following the accident. The family of the deceased gave their consent for organ donation and authorities at KGMC thereafter got in touch with several transplantation centres.
"Since the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences had a number of recipients with the same blood group as this donor, we accepted the offer.
"Members from our transplantation team flew to Lucknow early in the morning to receive the liver, which was brought to Delhi within four hours of retrieving it," said Vibhuti Sharma, transplantation coordinator at ILBS.
"The liver was flown to Delhi in a sterile container and transplanted onto the 53-year-old, who had no living donors in his family and was waiting for at least eight months," added Sharma, who hailed the "wonderful gesture from the donor family for giving the patient a new life".
ILBS runs a website, www.dorso.org, where people can come forward and register themselves for organ donation. "There are many patients who may never have such good fortune unless more and more people come forward and agree for organ donation," added Sharma.
Meanwhile, Delhi Traffic Police created "green corridor" for rapid transport of donated liver from IGI airport to the ILBS.
"The liver procured from a donor in Lucknow was flown to Delhi airport from where it was transported to ILBS in an ambulance covering the distance of about 11-12 KM in a record time of 11 minutes starting the transportation process at 3.30 PM," Special Commissioner of Police, Traffic, Muktesh Chander said.
Unlike the usual exit through Terminal-3 of the airport, the ambulance left through a special exit and following the congested route via Mehrauli-Mahipalpur Road-Rayan International School-Masoodpur, Vasant Kunj Road reached ILBS and handed over the transported liver to the awaiting team of doctors, the officer said.
The route was followed despite heavy traffic congestion as it was the shortest distance from the airport to the institute, he added.
Over 50 traffic police personnel were deployed for smooth movement of the ambulance through the green corridor, and a traffic inspector piloted the ambulance while traffic was stopped to facilitate uninterrupted movement of the ambulance.
"Delhi Traffic police had previously also prepared green corridors for transport of donated organs for transplantations and it was 5th occasion when we did it," the officer added.
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