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In a unique transplant operation, organs were transported using a Sukhoi Su 30 from Pune to Delhi. Acting with great precision and planning several agencies in Pune collaborated to ensure that a kidney and a liver reached patients awaiting transplants at Delhi.
It all started with Lalita Sarvade’s son Ganesh taking the decision of donating his mother’s organs. The 45-year-old housewife had suffered a head injury in a road accident on July 18 and was admitted to Armed Forces Medical College and Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune. On July 26, she was declared brain dead by an authorised panel of doctors, after which her son decided to donate her organs.
As soon as the decision was conveyed, a team of surgeons at the hospital swung into action. Cops at Wanowrie police station too did their best. Since the donation needed a lot of legal paperwork, the cops acted swiftly and ensured that all legal formalities were completed without any delay. Next, the surgeons at the Command Hospital retrieved the organs. Simultaneously, traffic police in Pune were alerted that some of the organs would be transported to the Airport so that they can be sent to Delhi.
The traffic cops created a green corridor from Wanowrie, where the Command Hospital is located, to the Airport. The vehicle carrying the organs reached the Airport in eight minutes.
Once at the Airport, the Indian Air Force (IAF), which had already been alerted, loaded the organs onto a Sukhoi Su 30. The fastest fighter jet with the IAF took off from Pune at 11.20 pm and reached Delhi at 40 minutes past mid night.
The organs, which included a liver and a kidney, were to be transplanted in two patients already admitted at the Army Hospital (R and R) in New Delhi. The liver was meant for an ex-serviceman and the kidney was to go to son of a serving Sergeant in IAF. According to an official release, the two patients at Delhi were in urgent need of transplants and in last stages of liver and kidney diseases. At the time of going to press, both the transplants were said to be successful.
Meanwhile, back in Pune, an autopsy on the body of Lalita Sarvade was conducted at AFMC at 4.30 am on Monday. Her mortal remains were then transported to her home for last rites.
Sarvade’s other organs too will be utilised in near future. One kidney has been shared with the local Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee and allocated to Pune Hospital. Both corneas have also been harvested and kept in the Eye Bank, awaiting transplantation.
Kidney, liver for transplant rushed in a fighter plane | The Golden Sparrow
It all started with Lalita Sarvade’s son Ganesh taking the decision of donating his mother’s organs. The 45-year-old housewife had suffered a head injury in a road accident on July 18 and was admitted to Armed Forces Medical College and Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune. On July 26, she was declared brain dead by an authorised panel of doctors, after which her son decided to donate her organs.
As soon as the decision was conveyed, a team of surgeons at the hospital swung into action. Cops at Wanowrie police station too did their best. Since the donation needed a lot of legal paperwork, the cops acted swiftly and ensured that all legal formalities were completed without any delay. Next, the surgeons at the Command Hospital retrieved the organs. Simultaneously, traffic police in Pune were alerted that some of the organs would be transported to the Airport so that they can be sent to Delhi.
The traffic cops created a green corridor from Wanowrie, where the Command Hospital is located, to the Airport. The vehicle carrying the organs reached the Airport in eight minutes.
Once at the Airport, the Indian Air Force (IAF), which had already been alerted, loaded the organs onto a Sukhoi Su 30. The fastest fighter jet with the IAF took off from Pune at 11.20 pm and reached Delhi at 40 minutes past mid night.
The organs, which included a liver and a kidney, were to be transplanted in two patients already admitted at the Army Hospital (R and R) in New Delhi. The liver was meant for an ex-serviceman and the kidney was to go to son of a serving Sergeant in IAF. According to an official release, the two patients at Delhi were in urgent need of transplants and in last stages of liver and kidney diseases. At the time of going to press, both the transplants were said to be successful.
Meanwhile, back in Pune, an autopsy on the body of Lalita Sarvade was conducted at AFMC at 4.30 am on Monday. Her mortal remains were then transported to her home for last rites.
Sarvade’s other organs too will be utilised in near future. One kidney has been shared with the local Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee and allocated to Pune Hospital. Both corneas have also been harvested and kept in the Eye Bank, awaiting transplantation.
Kidney, liver for transplant rushed in a fighter plane | The Golden Sparrow
...Why do not you start some war ...At least these fighter aircraft will be used for their core responsibility???
