Kolkata: A 71-year-old woman, medically declared
brain-dead on last Thursday, kept waiting to donate her heart for four days
once she died on Monday evening. The woman, Sovana Sarkar, and her family
wanted to donate all her organs post death, but could not do so after the
Kolkata Police denied securing a green corridor for transporting the organ.
Sarkar’s son Prosenjit, 43, said EXIN Times that he
and his father honored his mother’s wish. But “infrastructural and procedural
deficiencies in cadaver organ transplantation in Bengal ensured that her liver,
heart and lungs could not be used,” he added.
Prosenjit asserted that they would have been happier
if all the organs could be transplanted. Reports are that the Sarkar family had
also contacted with the health department officials and doctors of the Peerless
General Hospital for easing the process of organ donation.
Sovana was a resident of Panchasayar area near
Garia, the southern fringe of the city, had been kept on life support at
Peerless General Hospital from last Thursday.
Local news sources noted that though Sovana failed
to donate her heart, she managed to donate her two kidneys and eyes which will
help four people. A young woman, admitted at the Belle Vue Clinic with renal
failure, received Sarkar’s kidney late on Monday and transplanted successfully.
The eyes will be provided to two visually challenged people and is preserved at
Disha Eye Hospital’s eye bank, as the EXIN Times sources have asserted.
According to the Transplantation of Human Organ Act
of 1994, any person can donate his or her organs while states like Punjab,
Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Karnataka has successfully carried out cadaver organ
transportation. In Bengal, cadaver organ transplantation is done only if the
patient has signed a donation pledge or the family has given permission, like
Prosenjit but sadly, the state lacks records of proper recipients.
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