Gujarat: Teenager's organs give new lease of life to seven

In the first case of organ donation by a suicide victim, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and eyes of this brain dead girl were given for transplantation in needy patients in Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

Vadodara:Setting an example of humanity and goodness, a family of a 17-year-old girl from Gujarat's Vadodara district donated her organs after her untimely death and gave a second chance at life to five other children.

Vital organs like heart, lungs, both kidneys, both eyes and lever of Teenager girl Nandini, who became brain dead during treatment in Vadodara’s Savita hospital, were donated to save the lives of critically ill persons.

To send her heart to Delhi and lungs to Mumbai the Vadodara traffic police created a green corridor to enable these vital organs transported to the Harni airport from the hospital, a distance of 6.8 km in just 8 minutes. The kidneys, eyes and lever too were sent to the IKD hospital in Ahmedabad through a green corridor.

This is the first instance of its kind when seven vital organs from Vadodara were donated.

Nandini’s mother Krimaben said it was her desire to donate all her organs and had never thought that she would have to donate her daughter's organs.

"It is a matter of pride for me that though my desire to donate my own organs after my death could not be fulfilled, my daughter’s organs could be donated. At the same time, I am sad that my daughter is no more," she said.

This is the first time that the heart and lungs have been donated in Vadodara. The heart has been taken to AIIMS, Delhi and lungs to a private hospital in Mumbai.

It will take some time to match the recipient’s blood samples with the donor’s organs to decide in whom they will be transplanted. Her liver was transplanted into a 55-year-old man who was suffering from organ failure while the eyes were given to Baroda Medical College.

The administrative head of Savita hospital, Dr Tarang Sharma said after Nandini was declared brain dead, the counselling team of the hospital persuaded her parents to donate her organs.

The parents gave their consent following which the hospital started preparing to transport the organs in time.

He further said that team from AIIMS, Delhi, for heart and Fortis hospital, Mumbai for lungs arrived in Vadodara on Friday morning.

"Heart and lungs were removed from Nandini’s body through surgery. The same way, different teams of surgeons took out kidney, eyes and lever from the body and these organs were successfully sent to appropriate destinations on time," he said.

Nandani Shah, whose parents run a beauty parlour in Halal town, was admitted to the city-based Savita Hospital on December 19 after she consumed poison. She breathed her last on Wednesday evening.