Mumbai: After a telephone call on Thursday, a 22-year-old child from Ajmer rushed out of the house around 11pm to travel more than 400 km with a road to Delhi to take a flight to Mumbai at around 5.20 in the morning.
The young man, who lost his hands and feet after being setrocated on his farm early last year, had a strong motivation for the last flight to Mumbai: to receive a pair of hands.
His hand transplant – the third in Mumbai-started at Global Hospital, Parel, around 8pm on Friday.
Like recipients of candidates, hands were flown to Mumbai after the procedure because of Ahmedabad’s civil hospital.
From the airport to the hospital, the hand only took 16 minutes to arrive because the green corridor was put in place by the police.
Donors, a 50-year-old child who has undergone brain surgery, declared the brain death on Thursday, and a message about the availability of his hand, the lungs and the heart crossed the WhatsApp group managed by national organs and network transplants.
Organization (Noto) to all certified hospitals to transplant.
The transplant network with notto and regional (Rotto) and state avatar (Sotto) has made transplants between countries easier.
“Transplants between countries have been arranged in several times.
Now there are structures and deadlines for hospitals to respond to messages and every simplified procedure.
The hospital gets a warning about the availability of donors in any part of the country in real time,” said Dr.
Akash Shukla from Rotto.
For the 22-year-old child, the overnight trip was not a guarantee to get hands, but only the beginning of the process.
A few months ago, he had received a warning to be ready for a transplant, but the hand was allocated to another hospital.
On Friday, he reached a global hospital at around 7:30 a.m.
to first send blood samples for an important test called CrossMatching.
Crossmatch is carried out between donors and becomes the blood of the recipient to put aside antibodies and ensure compatibility.
At the same time he traveled to Mumbai, an official from Global Hospital’s Ahmedabad Clinic traveling with a blood sample Tobe donor.
Crossmatch testing starts around 10 in the morning and the result is around 2:00 p.m., indicating that the transplant can be done.
A team of doctors from Global also had to go to Ahmedabad’s civil hospital to take hands and travel again.
Before the third transplantation of the city began on Friday, Plastic Surgery Dr.
Nilesh Satbhai said the recipient was registered at Global Hospital in August.
The global hospital conducted the city’s first hand transplant on August 28, 2020.