Three women die within month of receiving organs from same donor

A colonial inquiry into the deaths of Karen Wilkinson, 44, Carmelina Sirianni, 63, and Gurpal Sandhu, 64, has prompted calls to improve communication between hospitals and medical staff. The three women received the organs from the same donor, 57-year-old Jovo Vranjesevic, but all died within six days of each other – and within a month of the transplants. Mr Vranjesevic died from a stroke 12 days after returning to Melbourne following a three-month stay with relatives in Serbia in 2006 The inquest heard he contracted lymphocytic choriomeningitis, an infectious virus spread by house mice, during his stay in Serbia, though he did not die from it. However, the coroner, Audrey Jamieson, found the three women developed complications within days of their transplants in 2007 and all died of the virus.

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