Brain dead patient\'s organs retrieved, airlifted to Bengaluru

BENGALURU: Doctors on Thursday retrieved organs such as kidneys, eyes, liver and heart from a brain dead patient Rakshitha, who met with an accident when she slipped while boarding a bus at Basavanahalli of Chikkamagaluru on September 18.

The organs were retrieved after her parents — Shekar Naik and Lakshmi Bai — decided to donate her organs after doctors told them that Rakshitha’s brain was dead while others organs were functional.

The deceased was a resident of Somanahalli Tanda in Kadur taluk of Chikkamagaluru and was staying at a hostel in Chikkamagaluru.

To retrieve her organs, doctors from Bengaluru arrived in Chikkamagaluru and successfully retrieved the organs, which were airlifted to Bengaluru. Rakshitha’s heart was first flown to Bengaluru from Chikkamagaluru.

Her mother Lakshmi Bai told reporters that she and her husband made a bold decision to donate her organs so that their daughter could be alive in other's body. “I will be content with saving a life,” she added.

 The retrieved organs of Rakshitha were flown to various places. Her eyes were stored in Chikkamagaluru, liver was taken to Mangaluru, kidneys to Manipal in Udupi and her heart to Bengaluru. Her lungs were to be retrieved but could not be used owing to mismatch in blood group of the donor and receiver.