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Udupi: Organs donated by accident victim give 8 people a new lease of life

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May 31, 2019

Udupi, May 31: Vital organs of an accident victim from Udupi district have given eight patients a new lease of life.

According to a press release issued by the Kasturba Hospital here, a person, Sudeep Poojary, 30, was severely injured in a road accident at Brahmavar on May 27. He was rushed to the Kasturba Hospital here but was declared brain dead by the doctors officially at 9.15 p.m. on May 28 under the 1994 Protocols and Procedures of the Human Rights Act.

Subsequently, Sudeep’s elder brothers, Sandeep and Pradeep, expressed their willingness to donate his viable organs. Two corneas, two kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart and lungs were harvested and this helped save the lives of eight people.

As per Jeevasarthakathe (formerly Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka (ZCCK) for Transplantation) protocols and decision, two corneas and two kidneys were retained by Kasturba Hospital here for registered patients while the liver and pancreas were sent to patients of BGS Hospital in Bengaluru and heart valve and lungs to the patients of BGS Hospital in Chennai. The organs were shifted to Bengaluru at 7 a.m. on Thursday, with the support of the Udupi police, from Manipal through Mangaluru International Airport via a Green Corridor.

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June 13,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 13: A bus agent died after the compound wall of his house collapsed on him at Matadagudde, near Gurupura-Kaikamba, on Friday afternoon. This is the first rain-related death reported in Dakshina Kannada.

The victim is Narayana Naika, 52. According to police, heavy rain on Friday afternoon blocked a small water stream adjacent to his compound wall, and the deceased was clearing it. The stone compound wall then suddenly collapsed on him, and he got buried underneath. He sustained grievous head injuries and died on the way to hospital.

Narayana is survived by his wife and two children.

Dakshina Kannada received an average rainfall of 26.1mm in the last 24 hours till 8.30 am on Friday. The highest rainfall was recorded at Puttur and Mangaluru taluks at 31.3mm and 30.3mm, respectively. Bantwal and Sullia taluks received 26.3mm and 24.6mm of rain, respectively.

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June 20,2020

Udupi, Jun 20: The wife and daughter of a 54-year-old man who succumbed to Covid-19, tested positive for the virus on Saturday.

Sources said that the family returned to Udupi on June 18 and the man died the same day while his wife and daughter tested positive today.

The man and his family had arrived at their house in Thekkatte on Thursday, June 18 afternoon. Later in the day, the man died. He was suffering from jaundice and had arrived from Mumbai in the state of illness.

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May 23,2020

Udupi, May 23: Five more persons tested positive for coronavirus in the coastal district of Udupi today. 

They include three men aged 37, 55, 31 and two women aged 48 and 34. 

Among them four are returnees from Mumbai and one is foreign returnee.

With this the total number of covid-19 cases in the district rose to 55.

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