A zero-traffic corridor coordinated by the Kodagu and Mysuru police helped transport a donated liver and two eyes from Madikeri to Mysuru after the family of a 22-year-old brain-dead man consented to organ donation.
The organs belonged to Yogesh, who suffered extensive brain bleeding after collapsing at his home in Madikeri around 4am on Monday. His family was preparing to celebrate Deepavali when he suddenly lost consciousness. Before that, he told relatives that something had hit his head, according to the report.
Yogesh was initially treated in Madikeri and later shifted to Mangaluru, where scans showed extensive bleeding in the brain. Doctors said treatment was not possible and placed him on ventilator support while treating him as brain-dead. His family subsequently brought him back to Madikeri with the ventilator and admitted him to the government hospital there.
Doctors explained that removing the ventilator would end his life. The family then decided to donate his organs and permitted the ventilator to be removed after Amavasya had passed. A four-hour harvesting procedure was conducted at the government hospital in Madikeri early on Wednesday.
A team from Manipal Hospital, Mysuru, assisted doctors at the Madikeri hospital. The procedure was led by Dr Amit and Dr Jnanavelu, with support from hospital staff including dean Dr Lokesh, district surgeon Dr Nanjundaiah, Dr Somashekhar, Dr Nishid Joseph and Dr Vinodha Kumari.
Dr Nanjundaiah said Yogesh’s kidneys had stopped functioning because of high blood pressure, leaving the liver and both eyes suitable for donation. The liver and eyes were then moved to a private hospital in Mysuru through a police-coordinated zero-traffic passage involving the Kodagu and Mysuru police.
Yogesh worked at Saptagiri Enterprises in Madikeri and had decorated the shop for a Deepavali Lakshmi puja before returning home. He had recently donated blood and lived with his mother, Nirmala, and his brother, a lawyer. His father had died earlier.
The case highlights the operational importance of rapid coordination between hospitals, specialist medical teams and traffic police when organs must be moved between cities. In this instance, the harvesting was carried out in Madikeri and the donated organs were transported to Mysuru for patients awaiting treatment.
