PANJIM: Goa Medical College (GMC) Dean Dr Shivanand Bandekar on Tuesday said that the transplant of liver other than kidneys will start in the hospital from next year.
Speaking to reporters, Dr Bandekar said that the Department of Gastroenterology has already been started under Dr Amit Maydeo in the hospital for transplants of liver.
The GMC on Monday conducted its third Deceased Donor Organ Donation and Transplant wherein the family of a 19-year-old boy decided to donate his organs to give a new life to four patients awaiting an Organ Transplant.
Dr Bandekar said that when approached, the donor’s family displayed great courage and made the brave decision to donate his organs of the boy after he was declared ‘brain dead’.
According to Dr Bandekar, all four organs were successfully transplanted and the recipients are doing well and recovering as informed by the sources.
The GMC Dean stated that organ donation is the need of the hour as there are lakhs of people who lose their lives every year due to organ failure. “Currently the GMC has 42 patients registered onto the waiting list for kidney transplant. There is a need of awareness among the society about organ donation. One brain dead donor can save upto eight lives through organ donation and heal upto 75 Lives through issue donation,” he said.
Stating that brain stem is a very important part of the brain that sustains life, Dr Bandekar said after brain death it is not possible for someone to remain conscious. It is a stage at which all functions of brain stem have permanently and irreversibly ceased.
