Bengaluru Woman Donates Liver & Kidney To Ailing Son In A Rare Phenomenon

The mother once again came forward and donated her kidney on September 11, 2021. 

A transplant surgery (Image for representation)

Chennai: A 40-year-old woman donated her vital organ not once but twice to save her ailing 20-year-old son in Bengaluru. The woman first donated her liver in 2008 and has recently donated her kidney within a span of 13 years. 

According to a report on The Times of India, Sreeja (name changed) was first found to be a matching donor for her son in 2008 and she decided to donate a portion of her liver. Sreeja, who runs a tea shop in Bengaluru told TOI that her son first started getting blood vomiting in his childhood and he was initially diagnosed with jaundice. However, later it was found that he had chronic liver disease and there was no cure to fix the liver except for transplant. Following this, Sreeja expressed her interest and she matched the requirement. 

Hence, in 2008, Sreeja donated a portion of her liver with doctors retrieving 300 gms of her liver and transplanting it to the child in a procedure that timed for 18 hours. 

However, as the family was returning to normalcy, another tragedy stuck them. Initially, the young adult in 2017 complained of weakness and swelling in his leg. He was then taken to the hospital and was diagnosed with End-Stage Kidney Disease. Though they were able to treat him with medicines for some time the doctor had to gradually shift to dialysis, the report. 

In the end, the 20-year-old had no option but to undergo transplant surgery. Hence, the mother once again came forward and donated her kidney on September 11, 2021. 

The Senior Consultant of Nephrology and Renal Transplant Physician of Narayana Health, Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed, said that both of them are fine and retrieving more than one organ from a single donor is a rare phenomenon. Both the transplant surgeries were also performed from the same hospital.