The recipient, who is from Uttar Pradesh and settled in Surat, has two sons and a daughter but with no eligible donor, he said he had no option but to go for this transplant.
Six days after Powai police busted the kidney racket at Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital and arrested seven people, the state-appointed inquiry committee visited the hospital for the second time on Wednesday. They interviewed the kidney transplant team and collected all the documents submitted by the recipient to the hospital's ethics committee for approval. Both the recipient and donor were also taken to JJ hospital for a check-up.
"We interviewed the kidney transplant team at the hospital. We have also collected all the documents submitted by the recipient to the hospital's ethics committee for the live-related transplant. It will take 2-3 days to study them.
We have not drawn any inference from the information collected so far," said an officer from Directorate of Health Services (DHS). The officer said that the three member committee had earlier met the donor and the recipient at the hospital.
The recipient, who is from Uttar Pradesh and settled in Surat, has two sons and a daughter but with no eligible donor, he said he had no option but to go for this transplant. "I was very unwell. With no donors in the family, I had no option. I was not able to continue with my business. I felt breathless," said the recipient, who was taken to JJ hospital along with the donor for the check-up. The recipient is now on dialysis. With the kidney racket busted, the donor is said to be in shock and pain. "She has been crying and upset. She has five children to feed at home and had agreed to donate a kidney to feed them. The surgeons had already made the first incision and started the kidney retrieval procedure when the police intervened and stopped it. She is recovering from the pain now," said a doctor at the JJ Hospital.
While police and the state health department's investigation is on, chronic kidney ailment patients who were scheduled to get kidney transplant done at Hiranandani hospital in August are clueless about their surgery. "My wife who is going to donate me her kidney, has undergone all the tests. We were gathering all the affidavits when the kidney racket was busted. Since then, there has been no communication from the hospital's side regarding our surgery," said one of the four patients who were scheduled for the transplant on first week of August.
The state authorisation committee which has suspended the transplant licence of the hospital said that it is the hospital's lookout on but they can not perform the transplant surgeries till the suspension is lifted. "It is hospital's responsibility to speak to these patients and refer them to other transplant centres in the city for the surgery. The investigation will take a while and till that time, the transplant licence of the hospital will remain suspended," said the officer from DHS.
JJ Hospital has set up a committee of five doctors who will be reviewing the health condition of both the donor and the recipient and submit the report soon.
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