First-ever skin donation at A’bad civil hospital saves three lives

After 35 days of Ahmedabad’s Asarwa Civil Hospital commencing its skin bank, the first case of skin donation has been registered. Organs, including two kidneys, one liver, two eyes, and skin, from a brain-dead patient in Ahmedabad have been donated.

The skin bank at the civil hospital recently started accepting skin donations, which will be transplanted into patients who have been severely burned or need other plastic surgery.

Three needy people have received a new lease of life through organ donation at the city’s civil hospital.

The donor has been identified as 52-year-old Raju Parmar, a native of Dhandhuka and resident of Viratnagar in Ahmedabad’s Odhav area, who was admitted to the hospital for treatment after suffering a brain stroke.

He was declared brain-dead on the second day of treatment.

The family members voluntarily contacted the authorities and gave their consent for his organ donations.

Of these, the kidneys will be transplanted into patients admitted to the kidney hospital and the corneas to the eye hospital, both located on the civil medical city campus.

The burn-plastic surgery department at the civil hospital admits over 400 burn patients every year. More than 200 skin grafting operations are performed on other accident patients who require the treatment.

This skin bank will help in the treatment of such patients.

According to sources, many relatives are still reluctant to donate skin for fear that the condition of the dead body will deteriorate.

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