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| Soldier dies in accident: Organs give fresh lease of life to three, sight to two | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu|Sep 14
An Army personnel, Havildar Sawai Singh, aged 40, was a victim of a hit and run road accident in Delhi on September 8. In this accident he had sustained severe head injury. Despite best of efforts to save his life, late on Wednesday last, the doctors at Army Hospital (Research and Referral) pronounced him brain dead and his family consented for donating his liver, both kidneys and eyes.
The liver was transplanted into a 35-year-old soldier suffering from de-compensated cirrhosis of liver and one kidney was transplanted into 38-year-old wife of a serving Sergeant from Air Force with End Stage Kidney Disease. The corneas were transplanted into two suitable recipients. The second kidney was handed over to AIIMS, where it was transplanted into a 58-year-old patient with Chronic Kidney Failure. The entire procedure took over 16 hours and continued till the wee hours of Thursday.
This multi task procedure was completed by a 40 member team of doctors and support nursing staff, under the overall supervision of Brigadier RP Chaubey, while the surgical team was lead by Colonel Anupam Saha and Commander Sudip Naidu, the anesthesia team was led by Colonel TVSP Murthy and Captain Joy Chatterjee.
The Armed Forces had launched the Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplantation Authority (AORTA) earlier this year to spread awareness on organ donation. As per Major General OP Mathew, Commandant of the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), this being a medico-legal case, the entire operation was carried out with the support of Delhi Police and Safdarjang Hospital. This is the second instance of multi organ donation in a medico legal case.
It may also be recalled that in the recent past an Army officer, Major Sidharth Malik had donated the organs of his year and a half old son who had lost his life due to a fall from a balcony in Secunderabad. The two kidneys of the little donor were fused together to save the life of a farmer from the coastal region of Andhra Pradesh, while his eyes were donated to the eye bank in Hyderabad. This act has been acknowledged to be the donation by the youngest human being by the Limca Book of Records and will be published in their next edition. Major Sidharth and his wife Mrs Nidhi has been blessed with a daughter ten days ago who they have named Myra (meaning, fragrance). Major Sidharth Malik is the recipient of Sena Medal for gallantry, which was awarded to him in anti terrorist operations in the North East, said a PIB (Defence Wing) release.
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