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A little more than two weeks after the successful transplantation of a heart airlifted from Trivandrum to Cochin, various agencies in Kerala once again joined hands on Tuesday to take the heart and lungs of a brain dead patient from a private hospital in the state's port city to Chennai in Tamil Nadu.
The organs harvested from 19-year-old Pranav, who was declared brain dead at Lakeshore Hospital, Cochin, following a bike accident at Kayamkulam in Aleppey district on Sunday, were taken to Chennai in 1 hour 12 minutes.
While an ambulance carrying the organs covered the 34km stretch from the hospital to Nedumbaserry Airport, which is known for traffic snarls due to the ongoing work of Cochin metro and some of the busiest traffic junctions in Kerala, in just 27 minutes, a chartered flight of Jet Airways cleared the 560km distance to Chennai airport in 45 minutes.
The police had blocked the normal traffic along the route to create a green corridor for the ambulance and the vehicles of medical team from Chennai. A similar green corridor was also created from Chennai airport to Fortis Hospital, where the transplantation took place.
The airport authorities at Cochin, who were informed about the operation just 30 minutes before the flight took off from Chennai with doctors from the Fortis Hospital, also rose to the occasion and facilitated the movement of the aircraft without any procedural hassles.
According to reports reaching here, the transplantation of Pranav's heart and lungs in two patients begun at the Fortis Hospital around 3pm. The hospital authorities have not revealed the identity of the recipients of the organs.
The other vital organs of Pranav, who died due to lack of timely medical care, were also donated to patients at various hospitals in the state. While his liver and one kidney were donated to two patients at Lakeshore Hospital, the second kidney was given to a patient at Calicut Medical College Hospital and the small intestine and eyes to patients at Amrita Hospital at Cochin. Pranav was first admitted to Harippad Taluk Hospital, where there was no separate neurology wing. He was then rushed to Vandanam Medical College Hospital at Aleppey, but there were no doctors to attend to him.
The family members took him to the Lakeshore Hospital after they were informed that they will have to wait for the neurologist till Monday. The hospital also took hours to arrange an ambulance to take Pranav to the hospital at Cochin. Pranav had bleeding in his ears when he was brought to the Lakeshore Hospital, according to reports.
The family members came forward to donate his organs after the doctors at the Lakeshore Hospital ruled out the chances for his survival. They said that they were happy to donate the organs as it would perpetuate Pranav's memory. Pranav met with the tragic death a week after he lost his grandfather.
The inter-state transportation of the organs adds a new chapter in organ transplantation in the state, which had created a history on July 25 when an air ambulance was used for the first time to fly the heart of a brain dead patient from the state capital to the port city.
Mathew Achadan, an auto rickshaw driver at Chalakkudy in Trichur district, who received the heart of brain-dead advocate Neelakanda Sharma, is recuperating well at Lissie Hospital, Cochin now. Doctors said he was active and was taking normal diet.
This is the third inter-state heart transplantation in south India in the last one year. The first such transplantation was done in September 2014, when the heart of 32-year-old woman was airlifted from Bangalore and transplanted in a patient at Fortis Malar Hospital at Chennai.
The second inter-state heart transplantation took place in December the same year when the heart of a two-year-old brain dead boy was airlifted from Bengaluru.
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