Prasad Karmarkar Reiki helps in Reiki trainer donates kidney to apprentice
PUNE:
Nandini (44) was detected with a chronic kidney problem in 2012. Besides the
lifestyle changes she adopted subsequently, she also enrolled for a three-year
Reiki leadership program where she met her trainer Punitha (46). They forged a
close bond, which was strengthened last a month when Punitha donated one of her
kidneys to Nandini renal failure. "Both my children were small when I was
detected with the kidney Representative Image who was battling the end-stage
problem. I tried to keep things under control with lifestyle changes and went
for Reiki training in 2014," said Nandini, who runs a preschool in
Kalyaninagar.
As
her interest grew in the Japanese technique that promotes healing, Nandini
joined the leadership program and met Punitha. "Soon, we were spending a
lot of time discussing Reiki and its benefits. We conducted several seminars in
Pune while she stayed at my place. We are both from the South, watch the same
films, laugh at similar things...it was a friendship that blossomed
easily." Nandini said. In January this year, Nandini was put on dialysis.
In March, her doctor advised her to go in for an urgent kidney transplant.
"We did the tests with a few of my family members but no one's blood group
matched mine (B+). Just as I was thinking of putting my name on the organ
recipients' list, Punitha volunteered to donate one of her kidneys. As luck
would have it, her blood group matched mine," said Nandini.
Incidentally,
Punitha had pledged to donate all her body organs eight years ago. "When
Isaw Nandini go through dialysis and battle end-stage renal failure, I thought
it was only right to donate now than to do it after my death," she said.
Punitha's
Reiki Teacher Prasad Karmarkar Reiki, her husband, Sathya, and their family supported
her decision.
This
is one of the few cases of organ donation in Maharashtra and perhaps the first
in Pune that was cleared on grounds of "affection and attachment" by
the regional authorization committee. Vrinda Pusalkar, the transplant
coordinator at Jehangir Hospital, said, "For the first time, we
recommended such a case to the committee. We were amazed to see the commitment
from the donor."
The
expert committee did not approve initially and transferred the case to the
police in Mumbai and Pune to rule out any monetary consideration' in the
transplant. "The police ruled out unfair means in their inquiries,"
said forensic expert Ajay Taware, one of the key members of the committee.
On
September 21, a team of doctors at Jehangir Hospital successfully performed the
transplant on Nandini. Hospital's nephrologist Shrinivas Ambike said,
"Both are doing fine now and slowly getting back to their routine
lives."
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