Three years ago, the mother of two daughters and a son had both their hands amputated due to electrocution while drying clothes on a wire.
Kanu Patel
On Saturday, a green corridor was made by the city police to take the organs from Kiran Hospital to the airport, from where the pair of hands traveled 292 km by air from Diamond City to Maximum City in 75 minutes.
This was the second pair of hands that was donated from the city. Earlier, in October, two hands were donated from the city and an accountant was transplanted in Pune. The transplant is successful so far as the hands are showing positive signs.
Not only hands, but in his death, 67-year-old Kanu Patel ensured a new lease of life for four others, when their relatives donated their kidney, liver and cornea as well. Patel, a native of Rupvati village of Gariadhar in Bhavnagar district, had suffered a paralytic attack on January 18. A brain haemorrhage caused a blood clot in his brain, which was removed, but he was declared brain dead when his health did not improve. on Thursday. patel’s wife Sharda Along with his sons – Kalpesh, Mayur and Anand – agreed to donate organs.
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