Row over Organ-Harvesting by Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS-HOSPITAL)))))))))) All is not well between the State-run Jeevandan organ donation programme and Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS). The corporate hospital on Friday declared that they had conducted a heart surgery on a 10-day-old baby by harvesting a pulmonary artery of a donor heart extracted from a brain dead young patient. The Jeevandan officials were in the dark and had no clue about the surgery at KIMS and brain dead declaration. According to Jeevandan officials, corporate hospitals should inform them about brain dead patients. “We do not have any information about brain dead patient at KIMS. Apart from that, we did not give the hospital any permission to harvest pulmonary arteries. They did not bother to inform us about brain dead patient too. We will take action accordingly,” said Jeevandan in-charge, Dr. Swarnalatha. “ This is the second time that KIMS hospital has gone ahead with organ harvesting without our knowledge,” Dr. Swarnalatha reiterated. It was very recently that Director of Medical Education (DME) had served notice on KIMS for taking up transplantation through organ donation without prior information to Jeevandan officials. “Organ harvesting and brain dead declaration is being done under State-run Jeevandan scheme. It’s mandatory for all the corporate hospital to keep us informed and distribute organs based on the Jeevandan priority list of needy patients,” Dr. Swarnalatha added.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:01:09 +0000
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