Pune: Brain-Dead Auto Driver Gives Life to Four Patients

The family members of a 33-year-old brain-dead auto driver decided to donate his organs, which gave new life to four other patients, including three Pune residents. The auto-rickshaw driver, Dharashiv, suffered from intracranial bleeding and was declared brain-dead by a private hospital in Maharashtra's Solapur on March 31. 

According to the doctor, Pallavi Mehta, Dharashiv's death was caused by accelerated hypertension, which was previously undiagnosed. He was declared brain-dead, and his wife and mother then decided to donate his organs. After they consented, his two kidneys, liver and lungs were retrieved and allocated according to the ZTCC guidelines. 

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Dharashiv's on kidney was donated to Ashwini Hospital and Research Centre in Solapur, the remaining organs were transported from Solapur to Pune. One Kidney and liver were allocated to Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune, while the lungs were given to Dr DY Patil Medical College, ZTCC Pune coordinator told The Times of India newspaper.

All the organs of auto driver Dharashiv reached Pune by green corridor on Wednesday evening, after which they were transplanted into needy patients. The liver was transplanted into a 21-year-old woman who had been on the waiting list for almost six years. The kidney was transplanted into a 22-year-old man. Both are doing well after transplanting.

His lungs were transplanted into a 44-year-old receiver who was admitted to DY Patil Hospital and College for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (a rare, progressive illness of the respiratory system). The second kidney was transplanted into a 43-year-old man at Ashwini Rural Medical College in Solapur.