70-year-old brain-dead organ donor gives new lease of life to two patients
70-year-old brain-dead organ donor gives new lease of life to two patients
-- This is the first ever Deceased Donor Liver Transplant of Punjab conducted at Fortis Mohali --
Solan, July 22, 2025: The Organ Transplant Surgery Team at Fortis Hospital Mohali has successfully conducted the first Deceased Donor Liver Transplant Surgery wherein the liver of a 70-year-old brain-dead donor was transplanted to a 64-year-old man suffering from end-stage liver disease. With this, Fortis Hospital Mohali has become the first hospital north of Delhi-NCR, after PGIMER, Chandigarh to have done a deceased donor liver transplant, and has also established itself as a Centre of Excellence for Deceased Donor Transplant.
End-stage liver disease is when the liver is damaged beyond repair due to chronic liver disease or acute liver failure. Both kidneys of the brain-dead donor were also transplanted to a 64-year-old man, making it the seventh Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant Surgery to be conducted at Fortis Hospital Mohali.
The Chandigarh-based donor presented to Fortis Hospital Mohali with intracranial bleeding (bleeding within the brain tissue) on May 10, 2024. The patient’s family was briefed about his health, following which they expressed the desire to donate his organs. The in-house Brain Death Committee comprising Medical Director Dr Vikramjit Singh; Dr Amit Shankar, Dr Sanchita Garg, Dr Anupam Jindal, and Dr Arshdeep Singh (AIMS, Mohali) nominee of the state appointed by the DRME (Medical Education and Research Department), Punjab, declared the Patient brain dead. The Liver Transplant Team comprising Dr JD Wig, Director, General Surgery; Dr Arvind Sahni, Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Dr Milind Mandwar, Consultant, Liver and Pancreas Transplant Surgeon; and Dr Swati Gupta, Associate Consultant, Liver Anaesthetist, conducted the Liver Transplant Surgery. The recipient regained consciousness immediately after the 10-hour-long surgery. The Kidney Transplant Team comprising Dr Sunil Kumar, Senior Consultant and Kidney Transplant Surgeon; and Dr Sahil Rally, Attending Consultant, Kidney Transplant, performed the single incision dual kidney transplant procedure on a 64-year-old man.
Fortis Hospital Mohali offers Organ Donation registration for heart, kidney, cornea, liver, lungs, skin, pancreas and intestines. As per the guidelines, a recipient has to first seek consultation from a doctor
who then determines whether the patient can undergo a deceased donor transplant surgery. Once approved, the recipient is then registered on the website of NOTTO.
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