After Mumbai’s second cadaveric donation on January 12, 2025, the clinical team at Fortis Hospital Mulund successfully enabled its first cadaveric organ transplant of 2025. A 63-year-old donor from another city hospital gave the ultimate gift of life to a 29-year-old recipient who had been diagnosed with acute liver failure. After an acute large intracranial hemorrhage, which was exacerbated by an intraventricular hemorrhage and a brain stem hemorrhage, the donor was deemed brain dead. The Mumbai Police and traffic officials made it possible for the organ to travel 21 kilometers in 20 minutes via a green corridor from Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (in Andheri) to Fortis Hospital Mulund.
On January 12, 2025, the 29-year-old recipient from Mulund, Mumbai, was placed on the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre, Mumbai (ZTCC) supra urgent list. By chance, he was given a cadaveric organ within 12 hours. The recipient was receiving treatment after being admitted to Fortis Hospital Mulund on January 11th, 2025. Together with Dr. Prashant Kadam and Dr. Vijay Dhakre, Consultant-Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary & Liver Transplant Surgery, Fortis Hospital Mulund, the liver transplant team, led by Dr. Gaurav Gupta, Director & Chief Surgeon-Liver Transplant & HPB Surgery, worked with remarkable precision to maximize the recipient’s chances of a full recovery.