INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: A 30-month-old girl child became the youngest cadaver heart donor at AIIMS after her parents decided to donate her heart and
other organs following her being declared brain dead
The girl had sustained serious injuries from a fall from the third floor of her house
This was the third cadaveric organ donation at the AIIMS trauma centre in the last 72 hours.Divyanshi's organs were retrieved by a
multidisciplinary team of AIIMS and cardiothoracic surgeons from Chennai on Saturday.These organs will give a new lease of life to two
The recipients will include an 8-month-old child from Chennai who is struggling to survive due to congenital cardiac condition.A green
corridor was created by the AIIMS Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation (ORBO) team for the transport of the retrieved heart from Delhi to
MGM Healthcare in Chennai
Her both kidneys will be transplanted to another child, said doctors, adding that her corneas were kept at AIIMS.Dr Deepak Gupta, professor
in neurosurgery department, said Divyanshi was the youngest child to donate heart at the AIIMS trauma centre so far
She sustained injuries after falling from the balcony of her house while playing
He said, "Falling from a height is the biggest killer among children under 12 years in India
We had launched a campaign last year - 'Safe balcony, safe child' to make people aware of this threat, but such cases still continue in the
city."The child's father, Raj Thapa, told TOI, "We wish that such an incident never occurs with anyone
We have lost our child and now we realise the importance of safer balconies
We want everyone to be aware about this fact and make their balconies safer for their children
The campaign launched by AIIMS should be promoted."A day earlier, a 48-year-old Shashi, who sustained severe head injuries in a road traffic
accident in Noida on November 16, was declared brain dead by doctors
Her retrieved kidneys were allocated to hospitals through National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation
One kidney was allocated to RR Hospital, while the other was allocated to AIIMS."This is the 12th organ donation at the AIIMS trauma centre
There is a steep increase in donations and transplantation from brain dead patients at the centre over the last couple of years," said the
chief of the trauma centre, Dr Kamran Farooque, adding that last year, a total of 16 organ donors donated their organs giving a new life to
over 80 patients in different part of Delhi-NCR.Dr Aarti Vij, prof in-charge at ORBO, AIIMS, appreciated the family's selfless decision to
donate organs in the midst of grief.
