Army jawan’s 15-year-old daughter, declared brain-dead at Chandimandir’s Command Hospital, gives fresh lease of life to 2 critically ill people

Vijay Mohan

Chandigarh, January 11

The 15-year old daughter of an army jawan who met with a fatal accident has given a fresh lease of life to two critically ill persons by donating her organs.

The girl was declared brain dead at the Command Hospital, Chandimandir, after a road accident in which her mother also died.

The girl’s father, serving as a havildar in the Territorial Army, took the noble decision in his hour of grief to donate her vital organs, sources said.

In a midnight surgical endeavour, the transplant team of Command Hospital harvested the girl’s liver and kidneys.

The harvested organs were flown to the Army’s Research and Referral Hospital, New Delhi, in an Air Force aircraft from Chandigarh, and successfully implanted into the patients admitted there.

In the past, the Western Command Hospital has performed several organ harvesting and transplant operations, providing a new lease of life to critically ill persons.

Organ donation was started in the armed forces in the late 2000s and introduced in the Western Command Hospital in 2014. The process is coordinated by the Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplantation Authority in New Delhi. 

Several other military hospitals across the country have also performed similar life-saving operations.