Chennai: In a rare operation, the Chennai-based Apollo
Hospitals has harvested 23 different organs from five brain-dead donors
to give a new lease of life to needy patients, an official said on
Wednesday.
"The well-meaning families have helped give people in end-stage
organ failure a second chance to live, and in the act will inspire more
people to donate organs," Prathap Reddy, founder and chairman of Apollo
Hospitals, told reporters on Wednesday.
On Sunday night, five families agreed to donate organs of their loved ones declared brain dead.
On Monday, the organs - five livers, 10 kidneys, six corneas and two hearts - were harvested.
Ten transplant operations were conducted at Apollo Hospitals
(five livers, one heart and four kidneys), while the other remaining
organs were sent to different hospitals where needy patients were
admitted.
According to state health secretary J Radhakrishnan, the
programme was to create awareness on organ donation and not for
publicity.
He thanked the families who agreed for organ donation despite their hour of grief.
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