Pune: Woman falsely presented as patient's wife to facilitate kidney swap

A woman allegedly posed as a patients wife so that he could have a kidney transplant through an exchange Pune Police said on WednesdayThe authorities at the private hospital where the kidney transplant took place last month brought the matter to the polices notice officials saidThe woman too approached police complaining that a middleman had promised her Rs 15 lakh police saidAs per the hospital and police the woman who fraudulently posed as the wife of a man who needed a transplant donated her kidney to a young woman patientIn turn the young womans mother donated her kidney to the manSuch a swap involving two patients and their relatives is carried out when the patients can not receive a kidney from their own kin because of blood group mismatch officials saidAfter a preliminary probe into the complaints from the hospital as well as the woman we found some truth in the case We have sent our report to the medical authorities at the Sassoon General Hospital in the city for further action said senior inspector Vinayak Vetal of the Koregaon Park police stationThe woman had presented herself as the wife of the patient before the regional authorization committee for organ transplant to get necessary approvalsShe also furnished a fake Aadhaar card and other fake documents as evidenceOn March 29 four days after the transplant surgery the woman revealed her real name at the time of discharge as she had had a dispute over money the police officer saidThe male recipient of the kidney had allegedly promised her Rs 15 lakhThe patient who is around 30 years old needed a kidney but none of his relatives could be a donor because of blood group mismatchA 19yearold girl was also in need of a kidney and in her case too none of her relatives blood group matched an official from the hospital saidBut the girls mother could donate a kidney to the male patientSo he thought of getting someone who could donate kidney to the girl and have a swap transplant process said the officialThe kidney transplant was performed by the hospital after following all statutory procedures of verification of documents and police verification he saidThe doctors at the hospital are not at fault It was the male patient and the woman who posed as his wife who cheated the authorization committee and hospital he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever