Overview
- HCMCT Manipal Hospital in Dwarka used normothermic regional perfusion with an ECMO circuit to restore circulation to abdominal organs after circulatory arrest.
- The donor, 55-year-old Geeta Chawla with motor neuron disease, died at 8:43 pm on November 6 after the family declined life support in line with her wishes to donate.
- The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation allocated the organs immediately, sending the liver to the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences for a 48-year-old male recipient.
- Two men, aged 63 and 58, received the kidneys at Max Hospital in Saket, with corneas and skin also retrieved for other patients.
- Hospital officials described the case as Asia’s first use of post-mortem circulation for organ preservation and said it points to wider DCD adoption in India, which ranked eighth globally for brain-death donors in 2024.