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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Gujarat man held for impersonating govt official, duping people with forged letters
Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.
Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.
“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.
One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.
Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.
Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.
“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.
