Nagpur: Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC), Nagpur, facilitated its 18th deceased organ donation of 2026 on Wednesday, taking the centre’s cumulative tally of deceased organ donations since 2013 to 203.The donor, Manisha Sagar Badge (41), a homemaker from Jalgaon, was declared brain-stem dead at a private hospital in Amravati. Her family consented to donate her heart, lungs, liver, both kidneys and corneas.Badge had met with a road accident in Amravati on Oct 17. She underwent treatment in Amravati for 10 days but her condition deteriorated. The Brain Stem Death Committee declared her brain-stem dead.Doctors, including Dr Hitesh Gulhane, and coordinator Santosh Wamankar counselled the family about organ donation. Her husband, Sagar Badge, and father Vyankat Khobragade gave consent for the donation.One kidney was allotted to a 62-year-old man at the same hospital in Amravati, while the second kidney went to a 54-year-old man at AVBRH, Wardha. The liver was allocated to a 66-year-old man at a private hospital in Nagpur. The pair of corneas was allocated to Harina Eye Bank, Amravati.No suitable recipient was found for the heart and lungs. Green corridors were created to transport the organs quickly and safely. A corridor was arranged from the hospital to the outskirts of Amravati.Badge is survived by her husband, son Ahant (12), and daughter Avira (8). ZTCC expressed gratitude to the Amravati and Nagpur traffic police for their assistance in ensuring timely transportation of the donated organs.
