Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. V Issue NO.: 17/18 (Feb-Jun-Oct 2004)
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Ambuja Cement Foundation funds two year Multi-organ retrieval project at LTMG Hospitals

Indian Transplant Newsletter.
Vol. V Issue NO.: 17/18 (Feb-Jun-Oct 2004)
Print ISSN 0972 - 1568
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Giving the organ retrieval and transplantation scene in Mumbai a new impetus is the ambuja cement foundation which will fund a two-year multi –organ retrieval project at LTMG hospital ,Mumbai.the project will be on motivation and retrieval and donated corneas,skin and heart valves after normal ward deaths and kidneys and liver after brainstem deaths in LTMG hospital.heart valve retrieval will,however ,be undertaken primarily by CVTS department will be placed under the charge of Dr.vatsala truivedi ,professor and head of urology department and secretary –general of zonal  transplant coordination centre,LTMG hospital.Mr.sureshguptan ,consulant to MOHAN  foundation ,who submitted the project concepts to ACF, has been designed to assist Dr .Trivedi as project coordinator.

TURNING TRAGEDY TO TRUMPH.......

Can one triumph over death? The answer is YES, as Mrs.Lalitha Raghuram ( Excecutive Director, MOHAN Foundation, Hydrabad) and Mr,Raghuram demonstrated when they donated the organs of their 19-year-old son, Swamy Nrayan, when he passed away in a tragic road-traffic accident in january 2004. Having been through the trauna of losing one's child, Mr,Raghuram could very well understand the mental turmoil of Mr.R.Sundanshiv of Pune, whose 28-year-old daughter Rekha, had been declared brain dead. But Mr,Raghuram, also knew that helping others live through organ donation was the only way making sense of a senseless tragedy. He told Rekha's father how his son's eyes went to an eight-month-old infant and a four-year-old and that both his kidneys and liver were also donated. Mr.Sandanshiv said that at first he did not understand the meaning of the term "live", he could not refuse. And so, today she "lives" in someone's eyes, kidneys, and liver. Rekha's liver was retrieved by a team of liver transplant surgeons (trained at King's college Hospital, U.K) from Global Hospital, Hyderabad who flew to Pune, performed the liver retrieval  at Ruby Hall Clinic and then flew back to Hyderabad where it was transplanted into a patient with liver failure. The kidneys were transplanted into two patients with end-stage kindey disease and the eyes were donated to two others. And so, Rekha really did triumph over death when she gave life to five other human beings. 

 


To cite : Shroff S, Navin S. Ambuja Cement Foundation funds two year Multi-organ retrieval project at LTMG Hospitals. Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. V Issue NO.: 17/18 (Feb-Jun-Oct 2004).
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https://www.itnnews.co.in/indian-transplant-newsletter/issue17/18/in-the-News-National-226.htm

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