By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
Bhubneshwar: When rest of the world was after kidney racket kingpin Kumar brothers, a unique, and desirable, sort of kidney transplantation was taking place in far away Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.
Two women, one Muslim another Hindu, donated one of their kidneys to each other’s husbands. This not only saved their husbands suffering from renal failure but also added a new chapter to communal harmony between the two communities.
Mohammad Sayeed hails from Cuttack and Harekrishna Bhanja from Balasore. Both have been diagnosed with renal failure and required kidney transplantation. While Harekrishna’s blood group was A positive, his wife Kalpana was B positive, making it impossible for her to donate her kidney. There was no other donor available at that time.
Harekrishna was admitted in Manjulaben Kidney Hospital. By chance Sayeed also came to the hospital for his kidney transplantation for some reasons. He was also facing a situation like Harekrishna. Sayeed’s wife, like Kalpana, also wanted to donate a kidney to Sayeed, but again the blood groups didn’t match. Sayeed was B positive and his wife A positive.
As the couples were caught in the same crisis, in the same hospital, and Dr Deepak Shankar Ray, the nephrologist, came to their rescue.
He arranged a meeting between the families and asked them to exchange the kidneys as Kalpana’s blood group matched Sayeed’s and Harekrishna’s blood group matched with Sayeed’s wife’s . The operation was conducted successfully on 23rd January in Kolkata.
According to Kalpana Dr. Ray introduced them to the Sayeed family and the kidney exchange was done with mutual consent.