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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