Gujarat : First double hand transplant performed in Surat

Surat : For the first time in Gujarat, both hands of a brain dead woman were transplanted to a 35-year-old young man from Dahod at Kiran Hospital in Surat on the eve of the World Women’s Day on Friday. This is the second incident of hand donation in the last six days through the Surat-based Donate Life organisation. 

The Narola family donated both hands, liver and eyes of Anjuben Rajeshbhai Narola, a brain-dead member of Leuva Patel community, through Donate Life organization, giving new life to six people and spreading the fragrance of humanity and showing a new direction to the society.

Surat city, known as Textile and Diamond City, is now gaining fame as an organ donor city in the country.

Rajeshbhai Narola’s wife Anjuben, who lived with her family in Surat, suddenly fainted at 10:30 am on March 4, while washing clothes. Her family immediately admitted her to Kiran Hospital under the treatment of neurosurgeon Dr. Bhowmik Thakor. A CT scan was performed for diagnosis and it was diagnosed that a blood clot had formed in the brain due to a ruptured blood vessel in the small brain.

On March 6, neurosurgeon Dr. Bhowmik Thakor, neurophysician Dr. Heena Faldu, intensive care physician Dr. Darshan Trivedi and medical director Dr. Mehul Panchal declared Anjuben brain dead.

Pratik Shah of Ramakrishna Welfare Trust contacted Nilesh Mandlewala, founder of Donate Life, by telephone and informed him about Anjuben’s brain death.

After receiving consent from the family for organ donation, SOTTO was contacted. Both hands, two kidneys and liver were allocated to Kiran Hospital, Surat by SOTTO.

One kidney transplant was done in a woman aged 29, a resident of Surat, and the other kidney transplant was done in a man aged 60, a resident of Surat, at Kiran Hospital, Surat, by Dr. Kalpesh Gohil, Dr. Mukesh Ahir, Dr. Pramod Patel, and their team.

The liver transplant was done in a person aged 38, a resident of Surat, at Kiran Hospital, Surat, by Dr. Dharmesh Dhanani, Dr. Ravi Mohanka, and their team.

For the first time in Gujarat, both hands donated through Donate Life were transplanted in a Dahod resident. The 35-year-old man was operated on by Dr. Arvind Patel, Dr. Ashutosh Shah, Dr. Nilesh Kachhdiya, Dr. Nidhish Patel and their team at Kiran Hospital in Surat. 

Originally a resident of Dahod and working as a lineman in Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL) in Vadodara, the young man climbed a pole to install a binder in July 2022, when both his hands were badly burned due to return current and had to be amputated. The young man has three daughters and a son in his family besides his wife. Eight hands have been donated from Surat by the Donate Life organization.

A total of 1301 organs and tissues have been donated by Donate Life from Surat and South Gujarat. Out of which 528 kidneys, 229 livers, 55 hearts, 52 lungs, 9 pancreases, 8 hands, 1 small intestine and 419 eyes have been donated, successfully giving new life and new vision to a total of 1197 people from the country and abroad.