A 22-year-old youth, Manu Mohan, son of Mohanan of Kaivanvila Venganinna Puthen Veedu, Nellimood, who had been admitted in the Medical College hospital here following an accident a week ago, died here on Saturday, but after giving a new chance at life to three others.
Manu, who had been working as Housekeeper on contract basis at the Thiruvananthapuram airport, had been fighting for his life in the Medical College hospital ICU, where he had been admitted with serious injuries. On Saturday, the doctors declared him brain-dead.
With the family voluntarily giving their consent for organ donation, Kerala Network for Organ Sharing, the nodal agency which is coordinating the State government’s deceased donor organ donation programme, Mrithasanjeevani, swung into action.
A team of four doctors, including a government doctor, conducted the necessary medical examination and the sleep apnoea test twice, in six-hour intervals, to confirm brain death. The entire process was videographed too as per the new and tightened organ donation regulations introduced by the government.
Both kidneys and the liver of the youth were harvested and transplanted in three other registered patients awaiting organ transplant under Mrithasanjeevani.
The body was released to the family soon afterwards, an official release said.
