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Multi-organ transplant at Army hospital

NEW DELHI: The Army’s premier hospital has carried out another multi-organ transplant which has given a fresh lease of life to three persons. After Leela Devi, 26, lost the battle with brain tumour, her husband, Lance Naik G.S. Bisht consented to donate her organs.

A combined team of over 40 doctors and para-medical staff from the Army Hospital (R&R) and Base Hospital successfully transplanted her liver into a serving soldier with terminal cirrhosis and one kidney into the 12-year-old daughter of a soldier suffering from end stage kidney disease. The other kidney was handed over to AIIMS, where it was transplanted into a 45-year-old person with chronic kidney failure.

As organ donation after brain death is rare in India, the armed forces launched the Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplantation Authority earlier this year to increase awareness. According to AORTA Director Col. A.K. Seth, hundreds of serving personnel and their families have pledged to donate their organs.

In May, the R&R Hospital retrieved organs from an accident victim which were transplanted on two patients in the same hospital and one on a Mumbai woman patient.

In an all-night procedure, organs of donor Ramesh Chand, 60, whose two sons serve in the armed forces, were transplanted on two serving soldiers and the wife of another serving soldier. The AORTA also takes the assistance of a computerised data bank of patients requiring various organs. This helps them transfer organs from one place to another.

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