Pics by: Spoorthi Ullal

Daijiworld Media Network-Mangaluru (JD)

Mangaluru, Feb 25: Doctors and police from Mangaluru worked in tandem with their counterparts in Bengaluru to give life to a person after the death of a youth here in city. The liver belonging to a brain-dead patient from a city-based AJ hospital was transported to Bengaluru to be transplanted to a patient there.

Vineeth Raj U (21) is the person whose vitals organs were donated.   

The police had made arrangements for zero traffic on the airport road as well as on the highway from the AJ hospital as early as 6 am making it possible for the ambulance to reach the hospital at the earliest, as the flight to Bengaluru was scheduled to take off at 7 am.

Full credit goes to the doctors of AJ hospital in the city who made this operation possible. The relatives of the 21-year-old boy, who was pronounced brain dead after accidentally falling from the second floor of a construction site on Tuesday February 23 afternoon, also donated one of his his kidneys to a person in the same hospital and the operation of transplantation is on since morning. As per the sources another kidney is yet to be donated as final approval from the recievers end is pending.

Eldest of two siblings and the lone son of Krishna Moolya and Geetha-from Ujaira in Kaniyoor village near Manjeshwar, Vineeth Raj lives on even after his death. Having completed his ITI after pre-university education, Vineeth was working in Mangaluru as a plumber in one of the construction sites. On Tuesday when he was going to have his lunch in the afternoon he slipped on the site and fell off from the second floor, severely damaging his head. He was later shifted to the AJ hospital from another hospital where he was initially admitted. On Tuesday midnight his brain stopped functioning and the doctor suggested the family of the deceased to go for organ donation.

After the family's approval, arrangements were made for liver and kidney transplantation.

The receiver for the liver was found in Bengaluru while operation to transplant one of the kidneys to another patient is on in the AJ hospital and receiver of the second kidney is yet to be finalized. The operation of extracting the liver began at 3.30 am.

As per some sources for the third time the transplantation via air ambulance is happening in the AJ hospital. The first such case, which was also the first in Dakshina Kannada, was on April 13, 2015 when the organs of Jeevan, who died in an accident, were donated and taken to Bengaluru.