Kolkata: The organs of a 28-year-old brain-dead man are set to give the gift of life to several patients across West Bengal through a coordinated multi-organ allocation. The deceased donor, Subhadeep Kargupta, a resident of Kalikapur on Taki Road, was declared eligible for deceased organ donation at Manipal Hospital, EM Bypass. This marks the fourth organ donation of the year in Kolkata.
The youth suffered a brain stroke shortly after being admitted to Manipal Hospital on June 10. According to Sutapa Dasgupta, the donor's aunt, "He had seizures after being admitted to a Barasat hospital for food poisoning. Kargupta slipped and injured his head at home, but we did not know that. After we admitted him at Manipal, tests revealed that he had severe haemorrhage and had suffered a brain stroke. He did not recover and was declared brain dead on Thursday."
Official medical logs detail the distribution of Kargupta's organs to multiple designated super-speciality hospitals. The heart has been allocated to the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences for a critical cardiac transplant. The liver has been sent to the state-run SSKM Hospital for a patient requiring an urgent hepatic transplant. The kidneys have been sent to two centres to treat end-stage renal disease, with the first kidney going to the Command Hospital and the second allocated to Fortis Hospital Anandapur. Corneas were retrieved by Disha Eye Hospitals to help restore sight to visually impaired patients.
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