Kolkata: The family of a 17-year-old brain-dead youth from Beleghata, Akash Auddy, consented to organ donation following his death at IPGMER-SSKM Hospital in Kolkata. This resulted in the successful retrieval and transplantation of multiple organs, giving a fresh lease of life to two patients and aiding two others with restored vision and tissue.One of Auddy’s kidneys was transplanted into a 28-year-old male recipient at SSKM Hospital, while the second kidney was transplanted into a 48-year-old male patient at Fortis Hospital. Additionally, the donor’s skin and corneas were harvested and retained at SSKM Hospital for medical use.According to an official from the Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO East), this marks the third brain-dead declaration at the Trauma Care Centre in the past four days. The medical team at TCC, led by in charge Rajat Choudhury, has been proactively working to identify potential brain-dead patients. While two cases successfully resulted in organ donations, one patient’s vital organs crashed despite receiving family consent.Sources revealed that although the teenage donor’s heart and liver were also found clinically fit for transplantation, matching recipients could not be arranged in time. Medical teams ultimately prioritised harvesting the kidneys to avoid delaying the procedure, which could have compromised the viability of the organs for the two identified matching recipients. This is the ninth donation this year.
