Mumbai sees 20 organ donations in five months
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Thane: Mumbai witnessed its 20th cadaver organ donation this month when the family of a 24-year-old brain-dead girl, consented to donate her heart, kidneys and liver.
The woman met with a road traffic accident and sustained severe brain injury.
Admitted to Fortis Hospital on May 22nd, she was pronounced brain dead yesterday.
According to a release from Fortis Hospital in Mulund, a 14-year-old boy, who suffered from Dilated Cardiomyopathy and had been waitlisted for a heart since March, received the donor's heart, while her liver was given to a 27-year-old woman who suffered from liver failure.
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