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Ahmedabad Civil Hospital organ donation service has gained momentum. Many people are being given a new life with the help of the organs received from the brain dead patients so that the living person does not have to donate organs and the patient suffering from organ malformation or problem can get a new life. Another unimaginable achievement has been added to this service of the Civil Hospital. On the night of 16th August, a 48-year-old brain-dead youth from Saurashtra (name requested not to be named) received a small intestine donation at the Civil Hospital. This is another case for Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and Gujarat as a whole. This young man was admitted to the civil hospital on 14th August with a serious head injury in a road accident. Where during the treatment, he was declared brain dead by the doctors on the night of 16th August. When the family of the young man came to know that he was brain dead, they decided to donate the organ in the public interest. As a result, two kidneys, a liver and a small intestine have been successfully donated for the retrieval of the young man’s body parts. The small intestine of a 48-year-old male organ donor from Saurashtra was successfully transplanted into a 40-year-old male patient by delivering it to Mumbai’s Global Hospital through the Green Corridor in a matter of minutes. Ahmedabad Civil Hospital Superintendent Dr. Rakesh Joshi said that the small intestine is the most important of all the organs found in organ donation. Although narrower than the large intestine, it is actually the longest section of the digestive tract, averaging 22 feet (or seven meters) in length, or three and a half times the length of our bodies. Also absorbs nutrients (vitamins, fiber, carbohydrates, fats, proteins) and water from food so the body can use them. The small intestine mixes food with the digestive juices of the pancreas, liver, and intestines and pushes the mixture forward for further digestion. The walls of the small intestine absorb water and digested nutrients from the bloodstream. In many patients, the small intestine is damaged by infection, inflammation, trauma, gangrene due to obstruction of the artery supplying blood to the intestine, mesenteric fat, cancer, twisted intestinal loop (volvulus), and birth defects. Short bowel syndrome occurs after surgical removal of a large portion of the small intestine. Dr. playing a key role in organ donation retrieval in civil hospital and working diligently in the field of organ donation. Nilesh Kachdia says about short bowel syndrome, a disease of the small intestine, that sufficient nutrients and water are not absorbed in the body from the food that the patients of this disease take in the body, so that all these nutrients are deficient. Such patients require lifelong total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Many of these patients cannot tolerate TPN in the long term. In reality, this treatment method is also very expensive. Such patients cannot survive long. Small intestine transplant is the only option for such people through which the afflicted patient can get a new life.