We felt as if we made a mistake by donating organs,” said the family members of 64-year-old Vinayak Mhaske, the first cadaver bone donor from Mumbai who donated his liver, both kidneys and eyes apart from the hip bone and ribs. His family consented to the donation in an hour after Mhaske was pronounced brain dead at Sawla Hospital, Chembur, on Friday morning. The family, however, had to wait for 27 hours as civic officials and the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC) dragged their feet to complete the multiple organ retrieval.

Vinayak Mhaske