First Anniversary of Deceased Donor (Cadaver

First Anniversary of Deceased Donor (Cadaver) Transplantation
Program at JIPMER – Press Release:
The deceased donor (cadaver) transplantation program at JIPMER completed one year,
in December 2014. The first deceased donor transplantation at JIPMER and in the state of
Puducherry was performed on 5th December 2013 when Mr. Jegadeesan, a resident
of Puducherry was found to be brain dead following a two wheeler accident and his wife Mrs
Jayanthi expressed her wish to donate his organs. Following this, family members of nine brain
dead patients came forward to donate organs at JIPMER and we have successfully
harvested kidneys and eyes (corneas) from them and transplanted to patients at JIPMER. The
latest deceased donor transplantation at JIPMER was performed on 15th November 2014. Mr.
Sankathamizhyan @ Mathi, a 27 year old engineer, hailing from Mailam near Tindivanam
sustained severe head injuries from a two wheeler accident and was found to be brain dead.
His brother Mr Sachithanantham @ Thomas and other family members came forward to
donate his organs. His kidneys and corneas were harvested and transplanted to two patients
with kidney failure and two patients with blindness.
So far eighteen patients with kidney failure who had no kidney donor in the family and
18 patients with blindness have benefitted from the deceased donor transplantation program
at JIPMER.
Organ donation is a life saving act and organs donated by a brain dead person can save
many lives. The family members of the deceased donors showed immense maturity and
generosity while coming forward to donate organs, despite an occasion of immense loss and
grief, from the demise of their loved ones.
The deceased donor transplantation program is a complex process involving multiple
departments in the hospital, hospital administration as well as the police departments of
Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. The deceased donor program at JIPMER has met with success
because of excellent support from the JIPMER administration with direct personal involvement
from Dr TS Ravikumar, Director, Dr J Balachander, Medical Superintendent and Dr MJE
Ambroise, Technical Consultant, JIPMER. The dept. of Anaesthesiology and critical care, Nursing
department, the OT and ICU nursing staff, dialysis technicians, blood bank, panel of experts for
brain death certification have all come together and worked as a team with single minded
dedication, for the success of the program and to save lives. The transplant coordinator Mr. AK
Saravanan played a key role in coordinating the whole process and completing the medico-legal
formalities. Dr Prasanna Bidkar, Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care and Dr
Venkatesh Madhugiri, Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, coordinated the brain death
certification and care of the brain dead donor. The kidney transplantation team under the
leadership of Dr Sreejith Parameswaran, Associate Professor of Nephrology and Dr K.
Muruganandham, Associate Professor of Urology organized the kidney transplantations. The
police departments of Puducherry and Tamil Nadu cooperated in a timely manner in
completing the medico-legal formalities of all the cases.
JIPMER is organizing a function to mark the first anniversary of the program, to felicitate
the families who came forward to donate the organs of their loved ones as well as to felicitate
the faculty and staff at JIPMER who contributed towards the success of the program, on 12th
December 2014 (Friday) from 2:30 to 4:30pm at Seminar Hall, SS Block, JIPMER.
List of deceased donors till date, at JIPMER:
Serial
no
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Date of
Donation
05.12.13
07.12.13
07.01.14
12.01.14
09.03.14
26.06.14
28.07.14
28.07.14
15.11.14
Name of organ donor
Age/sex
Place (District)
Jegadeesan
Appadurai
Natarajan
Vel Murugan
Dhanasekaran
Jestin Thiraviam
Amulraj
Murugan
Sankathamizhyan @ Mathi
50/m
55/m
62/m
26/m
55/m
24/m
28/m
28/m
26/m
Lawspet, Pondicherry
Sithanagur, Villupuram
Ariyur, Pondicherry
Kurinjipadi, Cuddalore
Thennal, Villupuram
Aranthagi , Cuddalore
Thirukovilur , Villupuram
Melpakkam, Tindivanam
Mailam , Tindivanam.
Departments of Nephrology & Urology, JIPMER

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