{"id":20555,"date":"2025-04-13T15:30:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=20555"},"modified":"2025-04-13T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:01:01","slug":"46-year-old-brain-dead-cab-driver-gives-a-new-lease-of-life-to-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/?p=20555","title":{"rendered":"46-year-old Brain Dead cab driver gives a new lease of life to six."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pune: A 46 year old male\u00a0 patient working as a cab driver was\u00a0 declared brain dead at KEM Hospital, Pune on 8 Apr 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By consenting to donate his Heart, Liver, Kidneys&nbsp; and Corneas&nbsp; his family gave a new lease of life&nbsp; to 6&nbsp; waitlisted organ recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the heart was sent to a hospital in Mumbai, one kidney was transplanted at KEM Hospital, Pune the other&nbsp; kidney, liver and corneas were transplanted into&nbsp; patients from other hospitals in Pune<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.Pradeep D&#8217;Costa, Head Intensive Care Unit at KEM Hospital, Pune informed that the cab driver suffered a massive intracranial bleed after which he was brought to KEM Hospital on 2nd&nbsp; Feb 2025 and put on ventilatory support.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;He was declared brain dead on evening of&nbsp; 8th April 2025.&nbsp; His family consented to organ donation after which his organs were harvested on 9th April and transported via a green corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the kidneys was transplanted at KEM Hospital into a 40-year-old lady software professional suffering&nbsp; from lupus nephritis .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team of doctors involved in harvesting included Dr Bharat Kalambe, General Surgeon,&nbsp; Dr. Yogesh Sovani&nbsp; &nbsp;Andrologist, Dr. Shardul Date, HoD Vascular Surgery,&nbsp; Dr. Shams Iqbal, Urologist, Dr. Valentine Lobo, Nephrologist , HOD Med&nbsp; Social WorkDept &amp; Dialysis &amp; Transplant Coordinator Rohini Sahashrabudhe,&nbsp; Transplant Coordinators Manoj Gadekar and Jasmeet Arora along with Dr. Poonam Deshmukh, Assistant Administrator KEM Hospital and the Nursing team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Rakesh Shah , Chief Operating Officer KEM Hospital, Pune said ,organ donation is a noble act and we salute the family members for this gesture which has given a new lease of life to many. We would also like to thank the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee and the Traffic Police for facilitating a green corridor to transport the organs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune: A 46 year old male\u00a0 patient working as a cab driver was\u00a0 declared brain dead at KEM Hospital, Pune on 8 Apr 2025.\u00a0\u00a0 By consenting to donate his Heart, Liver, Kidneys&nbsp; and Corneas&nbsp; his family gave a new lease of life&nbsp; to 6&nbsp; waitlisted organ recipients. While the heart was sent to a hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital","category-pune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20556,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpowerandvoice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}