First organ harvesting procedure performed in Latur

Latur, Maharahstra, Sep 27: Organs of 19-year-old brain dead youth from city has been harvested successfully on Tuesday evening in Government Medical College (GMC) here after he was declared dead. This is the first dead patents organ harvesting procure has been performed in Latur city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra. According to the GMC Dean Dr Rajaram Powar, a youth was admitted in the private hospital following head injuries on September 15 after he was fell down from tin roofs due to electric current. As his condition was deteriorated and was shifted to GMC on Monday where he was declared brain dead by the team of doctors. Later, the doctor convinced his family members to donate his the organs, which will save life of four needed humans. Completing legal process and arrangement of green corridor yesterday, the procedure of conducting organ harvesting conducted successfully by two teams of doctors from Aurangabad and Mumbai, they said. Two Kidneys and heart are harvested from the dead body of patient. Both the kidneys have been sent to Aurangabad based MGM hospital and Kamalnayan Bajaj hospital through roads which are transplanted to the needy patients in these hospitals. With the help of green corridor heart has been sent to the Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai while lever could not send to Delhi due to some technical problem in aircraft. It may noted that numbers of such cases of organ harvesting procedures have been successfully performed in the past in Aurangabad which is a divisional headquarters of this region. UNI