On March 7, the Institute of Kidney Diseases and Research Centre (IKDRC) in Ahmedabad transplanted two kidneys, a pancreas, and a liver from a 32-year-old Ankleshwar man who died in a traffic accident to four recipients.
A former Ranji player, an Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation employee, a physically challenged man from Vadodara, and a nurse are among the organ recipients, according to an IKDRC press conference on Tuesday.
One of the recipients of the deceased donor’s kidneys, who died in a car accident, is a 49-year-old AMC employee who registered for the cadaver donor programme in 2019 after suffering from kidney disease.
His attempt to obtain a kidney through the programme had been thwarted three times due to anomalies in medical tests, until his test results matched with the 32-year-old donor.
A 56-year-old former Ranji player Sunil Pathak was transplanted with the deceased donor’s liver through cadaver donor match within eight months after Pathak registered himself with the cadaver donor programme. Pathak was diagnosed with alcoholic liver.
The pancreas of the deceased donor was transplanted in a 22-year-old nurse who was diagnosed with diabetes and was on insulin since she was five years old. With her pancreas failing around six years back, the 22-year-old registered with the cadaver donor programme in 2022.
The second kidney was transplanted in a 39-year-old physically challenged man from Vadodara who has been on dialysis since the past six years and has been suffering from kidney ailments since 2012.