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Rayavalasa, December 20: Organ donation is a great initiative. It is a wonderful program that sheds light in the lives of others while dying. Gems Hospital in Srikakulam became the venue for such an organ donation program. The family members of Potnuru Rajeswara Rao (62) of Rayavalasa, Tekkali mandal, Srikakulam district, who was brain dead, came forward to donate his organs. Rajeswara Rao was admitted to Gems Hospital on 14th of this month due to brain haemorrhage. Doctors have been treating him on ventilator for the past five days. However, there was no response to the treatment. As a result, the doctors diagnosed him as brain dead and counseled Rajeswara Rao’s family members on organ donation. As his wife and son Tejeshwara Rao agreed to organ donation, the hospital doctors applied to Jeevan Dhan and arrangements were made for it. Doctors found that Rajeswara Rao’s heart and liver are functional for organ donation and collected them from him on Tuesday and immediately moved the organs to be transplanted to those who need them. While the heart was shifted to Swims in Tirupati, the liver was shifted to a private (pinnacle) hospital in Visakha.
Heart transplant in helicopter..
In organ donation, the collected organs have to be transplanted to the person who needs them within a certain period of time. The sooner they can be installed…the better their performance will be. After the specified time they become ineffective and all the effort spent on it goes in vain. In cases where the heart has been removed, it will have to be repaired within 4 to 6 years. That is why in the organ donation program, transportation of organs is carried out to the destination through green channel with police escort to avoid any traffic problems. Air Ambulances are used by the government if necessary depending on the distance along with the road route for the transportation of organs. In this order, while the heart of Rajeswara Rao was to be moved to Tirupati, the state government prepared a helicopter for it. A helipad was set up in the premises of Gems Hospital in Srikakulam and the heart was taken by helicopter from Srikakulam to Visakhapatnam Airport and from there on a special chartered flight to Tirupati. Liver was taken to a private hospital in Visakha through the road.
Three brain dead patients were transplanted at Gems Hospital in just 30 days
Since the establishment of Gems Hospital till now, a total of four brain dead patients have been harvested and transplanted. Recently, three people donated their organs in just 30 days. Seven months ago, a 14-year-old boy named Kiran Chand, on the 26th of the previous month, a 25-year-old secretariat employee named Maunika, and on Tuesday, a man named Rajeswara Rao, were removed and installed in needy people. Doctors and medical-nursing staff of Gems Hospital paid tributes to Rajeswara Rao, who donated his organs on Tuesday.
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