DEHRADUN: A kanwariya who died after being hit by a car near Roorkee while heading towards Haridwar to fetch Ganga water has saved and transformed five lives through organ donation. Sachin Khandelwal, 25, from Mahendragarh in Haryana, met with an accident on July 22 and was admitted to AIIMS Rishikesh, where doctors said he had slipped into a coma. He died soon after.
After being approached by doctors , Sachin’s family agreed to donate his organs.On Thursday, the Dehradun police facilitated a green corridor from AIIMS Rishikesh to Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport to expedite the transportation of the organs. His kidneys, pancreas, and liver were transported to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, and the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Delhi for transplantation. Two patients in Uttarakhand regained their sight on Saturday thanks to Sachin’s corneas.
Talking to TOI, Pankaj Khandelwal, Sachin’s younger brother who works in Gurgaon, said, “It is said that one should complete at least two kanwar yatras in a lifetime. The two of us went for our first yatra when we were very young..”
This was also the first-ever cadaveric organ donation procedure at AIIMS Rishikesh. Professor Dr Meenu Singh, executive director of AIIMS Rishikesh, said, “We not onlyachieved a milestone in advanced medical technology but also demonstrated remarkable capability in saving lives with administrative support..”
After being approached by doctors , Sachin’s family agreed to donate his organs.On Thursday, the Dehradun police facilitated a green corridor from AIIMS Rishikesh to Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport to expedite the transportation of the organs. His kidneys, pancreas, and liver were transported to the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, and the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Delhi for transplantation. Two patients in Uttarakhand regained their sight on Saturday thanks to Sachin’s corneas.
Talking to TOI, Pankaj Khandelwal, Sachin’s younger brother who works in Gurgaon, said, “It is said that one should complete at least two kanwar yatras in a lifetime. The two of us went for our first yatra when we were very young..”
This was also the first-ever cadaveric organ donation procedure at AIIMS Rishikesh. Professor Dr Meenu Singh, executive director of AIIMS Rishikesh, said, “We not onlyachieved a milestone in advanced medical technology but also demonstrated remarkable capability in saving lives with administrative support..”