Brain dead woman donates organs to seven persons
Manipal, June 26: The organs of a brain dead woman gave rebirth to seven patients at the KMC hospital in the city on Tuesday. Nirmala Bhat (51) of Karkala was declared brain dead. After the family members approval, her organs were donated to seven patients.
Nirmala Bhat sustained serious injuries when a motorbike knocked her down while walking on the road near her house on June 22 and she was admitted to KMC hospital on June 23. Nirmala Bhat who was treating in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital was declared brain dead on June 25 at 12.30 pm by the four senior doctors of the Medical Council as per the Human Protection Act 1994.
Later, with the consent of her husband Vasudeva Bhat and family members, the doctors separated her two heart valves, carnea, kidney and liver from her and prepared for transplant. Two carneas and one kidney will be transplanted to three patients admitted in the KMC of Manipal, liver and two heart valves will be given to the patients identified in Bengaluru and another kidney will be donated to another patient identified in Mangaluru, said KMC medical superintendent Dr Avinash Shetty.
Technical snag in helicopter
It was planned to airlift the organs through Mangaluru airport to Bengaluru from Manipal. But the helicopter which reached Adi Udupi helipad developed a technical snag and in the last moment, the organs were transported to Mangaluru airport by road. Liver and two heart valves were sent to Bengaluru through flight at 3.15 pm and a kidney was sent to Mangaluru at 3.50 pm. The ambulances which carried the organs were given zero traffic facility with police escort.
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IndiGo crisis enters day 7; 127 flights cancelled from Bengaluru
Mumbai (PTI): Flight disruptions at IndiGo entered the seventh day as the crisis-hit carrier cancelled 127 flights from Bengaluru Airport on Monday, a source said.
In another development, aviation safety regulator DGCA in an order on Sunday late evening extended the time by Monday 6 pm for IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and Chief Operating Officer and Accountable Manager Isidro Porqueras to submit reply to its show cause notice over the ongoing disruptions in the airline’s operations.
In the notices issued to Elbers and Porqueras on Saturday, the regulator said the large-scale operational failures pointed to significant lapses in planning, oversight, and resource management, and asked them to submit their replies within 24 hours.
IndiGo has cancelled 127 flights, including 65 arrivals and 62 departures from Bengaluru Airport, the source said.
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The Gurugram-based airline, partially-owned by Rahul Bhatia, has been facing heat from both the government and the passengers for cancelling hundreds of flights since December 2, citing regulatory changes in the pilots' new flight duty and regulations norms, which resulted in lakhs of passengers getting stuck at airports pan-India.
For the first three days the airline failed to acknowledge the huge number of cancellations and it was only Friday when it cancelled 1,600 flights (Friday), a record in Indian aviation history that CEO Elbers released a video apologising for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.
In the message, he admitted that the airline was cancelling a large number of flights, but did not mention that it would cancel 1,600 flights on that particular day.
The new norms, applicable for all domestic carriers, have come into force in two phases - July 1 and November 1 this year.
IndiGo has already temporarily secured major relaxations in the second phase norms till February 10.
The latest FDTL norms, which entail increased weekly rest periods to 48 hours, extended night hours, and limiting the number of night landings to only two, as against six earlier, were initially opposed by domestic airlines, including IndiGo and Tata Group-owned Air India.
But they were subsequently rolled out by the DGCA following the Delhi High Court's directives, albeit with a delay of over one year, in a phased manner, and with certain variations for airlines like IndiGo and Air India.
The norms were originally to be put in place from March 2024, but airlines, including IndiGo, sought a step-by-step implementation, citing additional crew requirements.
