Organs of brain dead donated under Jeevandan initiative

Hyderabad: The family members of a 40-year-old electrician Bojana Yadagiri, a resident from Mirjaguda, Shankarpally mandal, Rangareddy district, who was declared as brain dead by a team of attending neuro-physicians, have donated the organs of the deceased, as part of the state-run Jeevandan organ donation initiative. On February 4, at around 3.30 pm, Yadagiri received […]

Hyderabad: The family members of a 40-year-old electrician Bojana Yadagiri, a resident from Mirjaguda, Shankarpally mandal, Rangareddy district, who was declared as brain dead by a team of attending neuro-physicians, have donated the organs of the deceased, as part of the state-run Jeevandan organ donation initiative.

On February 4, at around 3.30 pm, Yadagiri received severe head injuries when he fell from a electricity pole. He was shifted to Continental Hospitals, Gachibowli, where he was on ICU support for three-days. Despite all efforts, the health condition of the electrician did not improve and the neuro-physicians declared him as brain dead due to severe head injury, on February 7.

The Jeevandan volunteers and hospital organ donation officials conducted grief counselling to the family members of the deceased including his wife Manjula and two children B Reshanth (14) and B Jeevan (12). According to Jeevandan officials, the family members of the brain dead electrician immediately agreed to donate his organs.

The surgeons retrieved five organs including two kidneys, liver and two corneas and sent them to other transplant centres based on the Jeevandan guidelines.

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