'New Era' in organ transplant in Central India

By Vikas Vaidya

A TEAM of doctors at a city hospital performed a unique medical procedure where it transplanted two organs in one patient in a single operation. This procedure was conducted in New Era Hospital, Lakadganj on Sunday.
The emotional part deals with the courage and humanity shown by parents of the boy whose organs were donated to a patient in the hospital. The parents are labourers and the poor 23-year-old deceased too was working with them on daily wages.
Suraj Manohar Dudhpachare, a resident of Suradevi, Koradi had met with an accident on Koradi-Mahadula road when his two-wheeler was knocked by a speedy truck on November 15. Suraj suffered serious injuries including severe ones to his head. He was brought to New Era Hospital. Dr Nilesh Agrawal, Neuro-Surgeon, took lot of efforts to save the patient. But since Suraj was critical the efforts of Dr Agrawal went in vain. Finally Dr Agrawal, Dr Parag Moon, Dr Amol Kokas and Dr Sahil Bansal declared Suraj as brain dead on November 17. The doctors at New Era Hospital did not have to take much effort to explain the importance of organ donation to the parents. The patient's father Manohar Dudhpachare, brother Kailash and Sarpanch Sunil Dudhpachare along with mother Manda agreed to donate heart, two kidneys and liver. Accordingly, the hospital informed Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC). Dr Vibhavari Dani, President of ZTCC and Dr Ravi Wankhede, Secretary immediately gave their consent to donate two kidneys and one liver. Heart alert was sent to regional and national level. Heart and lungs were also allocated at national level, but due to logistic problems and time limit team of doctors from other hospital could not reach Nagpur to retrieve the heart in time. Liver and one kidney were transplanted in New Era while another kidney was taken to Orange City Hospital and Research Institute (OCHRI).
This is Nagpur's 39th brain stem dead donor, 26th liver transplant, 24th liver donation since 2016. Under ZTCC, this is the 70th kidney transplant in Nagpur since 2013.

Team involved in the process


-ZTCC Nagpur President- Dr Vibhavari Dani, Secretary- Dr Ravi Wankhede
-Liver Committee Chairperson - Dr Sudhir Tomey (gave permission for Liver transplant)
-Kidney Committee Chairperson - Dr C P Bawankule (gave permission for kidney transplant) allocated the organs according to ZTCC waitlisted patients.
-Retrieval and Transplants are coordinated by Veena Wathore
-New Era team of Kidney retrieval and Transplant :
Dr Ravi Deshmukh, Dr S J Acharya, Dr Ronit Gupta, and Anesthetist's team Dr Anil Singh, Dr Saheel Bansal, Dr Savita Jaiswal.
Liver retrieval and Transplant Team :
Dr Rahul Saxena, Dr Varun Mahabaleshwar, Dr Amit Deshpande, Dr Rajiv Sinha,  and Transplant coordinators for both Liver and kidneys Dr Ashwini Chaudhari, Shubham Raut, Murli Choudhari, Preeti Shah, Imran Sheikh and Administrative Officer- Avinash Sharma.
Kindney Team at OCHRI Hospital:  
 Dr Suhas Salpekar, Dr Sandeep Deshmukh, Dr Sandip Khanzode, Dr S J Acharya
and Transplant coordinator Manjiri Damle.