46-yr-old Pune cabbie declared brain dead, organ donation helps save four lives

Steffy Thevar / Apr 11, 2025, 00:59 IST

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46-yr-old Pune cabbie declared brain dead, organ donation helps save four lives

Pune: A 46-year-old brain dead cab driver's organs gave a fresh lease of life to four people in the city and Mumbai on Wednesday.
The cab driver, a Wadgaon Sheri resident, died on April 8 at KEM hospital due to intracranial haemorrhage (brain bleed). After his father, wife and daughter consented to donating his organs, both his kidneys, his liver and heart were retrieved and allocated as per the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC), Pune, guidelines.

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One of his kidneys was allocated to KEM Hospital to a 41-year-old woman, while the second kidney went to a 56-year-old woman admitted at Symbiosis Hospital. The liver was allocated to another private hospital in the city and was transplanted into a 57-year-old woman. His heart was transplanted in a 54-year-old man at Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai. The heart reached Mumbai within two hours via a green corridor.

Aarti Gokhale, coordinator of Pune ZTCC said, "Due to increased awareness about organ donation among people, in this case the decision to donate organs was taken by the family entirely voluntarily. The donation took place in Pune's KEM hospital. The donor is survived by his wife, two children and parents."
Gokhale added that all the recipients were in a stable condition after surgery. This was the 27th donation this year under ZTCC Pune.

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Steffy Thevar

Steffy Thevar is a Pune-based senior correspondent working for the Times of India. She writes on health, urban infrastructure and gender parity issues. She has worked in Mumbai for three years and shifted to Pune and covered the Covid19 pandemic. She had completed her masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from Savitribai Phule Pune University's department of Mass Communication and Journalism. She also writes on a range of issues including housing, human rights and environment.

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