New Delhi: Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here yesterday saved eight lives through cadaver organ donation.
The donor was a 45-year-old woman victim of a road accident who received severe head injuries, and was declared brain dead on Thursday, the hospital said.
The husband and brother of the deceased agreed to sign the consent form, allowing the donation of her liver, heart valves, kidneys and corneas. “The Organ Retrieval and Banking Organisation was alerted, and the AIIMS transplant coordinator counselled the family for organ donation,” said an AIIMS statement.
The organ retrieval was done by a team of AIIMS doctors and subsequently transplanted later in the day. The kidneys were transplanted to an adult and a paediatric recipient, and the liver also to a recipient. The heart valves and corneas were preserved to be transplanted to suitable recipients later.
Militants attack army camp in Kashmir
Jammu: Three militants, dressed in army uniforms, yesterday attacked an army camp in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district riding a goods vehicle they hijacked at gunpoint, but were shot dead after a gunfight. A soldier and the vehicle’s driver and another occupant were also killed.
Jammu Inspector General of Police Rajesh Kumar told reporters that the operation against the three guerrillas, dressed in army uniforms, ended in the evening after all three were killed by the security forces.
The three militants earlier hijacked a truck, killed one rpt one of its occupants and forced the driver to take them to the army camp in the Kathua district.
CM’s gunman’s land deal: CBI probe ordered
Alappuzha: The Kerala High Court yesterday ordered a CBI probe into an alleged land deal involving a former gunman of Oommen Chandy. The chief minister welcomed the decision, saying “whenever there is a demand for a CBI probe, we have agreed to it”.
A division bench of the high court, headed by Justice Haroon Rashid, yesterday heard a petition over two land deals worth `4bn involving 45 acres of land believed to have been usurped by Chandy’s former gunman Salim Raj and his accomplices. The court handed the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The court also said the chief minister was duty bound to explain to the people why there was a serious lapse on his part that he did not apply his mind when selecting his personal staff.
Maoists set 15 trucks on fire in Chhattisgarh
Dantewada: Armed Maoists yesterday went on a rampage at an iron ore mining point in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh and set 15 trucks and an excavator vehicle on fire, police said.
Ultras dressed like villagers intercepted the convoy of trucks at Kirandul and burnt down the vehicles, but fled when police reached the site surrounded by hills on two sides, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Narendra Khare said.
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