Bengaluru: In a rare instance, a kidney harvested from a donor at Manipal Hospital in Yeshwantpur went to waste after it sustained a minor laceration during retrieval Tuesday. The kidney was to go to a recipient at the state-run Institute of Nephro Urology (INU).Currently, there are over 4,700 patients in Karnataka waiting for a kidney.“The kidney came to us with a minor laceration. When that is the case, we must inform the patient, and when we did, the patient told us they do not want the organ. Ultimately, we had to send it to the brain museum in Nimhans, where they store other organs and tissues,” said a surgeon from the INU transplant team.Dr Ravishankar Shetty K, state coordinator, Jeevasarthakathe (SOTTO), said an inquiry will be ordered. “Such injuries occur very rarely during retrieval. Hence, we need to check with the host hospital as to why the injury happened…”
