South Goa neta's friend dies in Chennai TNN, May 31, 2010, 08.12am IST
CHENNAI/MARGAO: A cadaveric liver, 250 units of blood components, and dedicated team of doctors and paramedical staff working round the clock at the intensive care unit of Apollo Hospitals in Chennai could not save 27-year-old Joelle Nadia Torrado from Loutolim, who was admitted to the hospital last week.
Torrado, known to be “close” to a prominent politician from South Goa, had tried to commit suicide on May 15.
Doctors at Chennai’s Apollo Hospitals said Torrado developed end-stage liver failure after she consumed rat poison along with the anti-depressant pill Alprozolam. She died on Saturday following severe blood poisoning that led to cardiac and respiratory arrest.
She was first admitted to Apollo Hospital, Margao, after she consumed Ratol. She was subsequently rushed to Jupiter Hospital in Thane, where a special executive magistrate recorded her statement. She said she accidentally consumed Ratol “mistaking it for a toothpaste”.
However, as medical records at Apollo Hospital, Margao, revealed that she had consumed an entire tube of Ratol, police were of the view that it was a deliberate attempt at suicide and had booked her under section 309 of the IPC.
Sources said Torrado was shifted to Thane from Margao after the politician took it upon himself the risks involved in her air-lifting to Mumbai in a critical condition. Torrado was taken to Chennai by a chartered flight last week. “When she was wheeled in she had already developed liver and kidney failure. She was on active dialysis and on life support,” said a senior doctor at the Apollo Hospitals.
Investigations revealed that the combination of rat poison and anti-depressants had caused “severe and uncontrollable” bleeding of the liver. Zinc phosphate, the main ingredient of rodent poison, had also severely damaged the liver. Doctors put her on the top priority for a liver transplant. The first choice for the doctors was to see if there were any suitable blood relatives who could give her a chunk of their liver to replaced the diseased one. But the doctors could not find one in the relatives. Her estranged husband and some family members were present in the Chennai hospital.
Her name was then forwarded to the Chennai organ transplant registry, a state-run network that has helped transplant of more than 500 organs from patients declared brain dead.
“We moved her up the waiting list, by-passing several patients due to her age and medical condition,” said Chennai organ transplant co-ordinator Dr J Amalorpavanathan.
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