Brain-dead youth from A.P. gives new lease of life to many

Vital organs sent to a hospital in Chennai

February 24, 2022 10:48 pm | Updated 10:57 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA

A traffic police personnel watching the ambulances carrying the harvested organs passing through the green channel to the Vijayawada Airport in Gannavaram on Thursday.

A traffic police personnel watching the ambulances carrying the harvested organs passing through the green channel to the Vijayawada Airport in Gannavaram on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI

A youth who was clinically declared brain dead by doctors gave a new lease of life to at least six persons in need of vital organs on Thursday.

The youth, M. Koteswara Rao from Gollapalem village near Machilipatnam in Krishna district, sustained severe injuries in an accident on February 22 while returning to his village after attending a marriage ceremony in Bhimadole of West Godavari district.

He was rushed to a hospital in Vijayawada and later shifted to the NRI General Hospital in Guntur. He was declared brain dead and his family came forward to donate his vital organs.

The Vijayawada police set up a green channel for transport of the organs in three ambulances from the hospital to the airport at Gannavaram via the Chennai-Kolkata national highway.

According to information, the corneas and kidneys of Koteswara Rao were sent to hospitals in Guntur and the lungs, heart and liver were sent to a hospital in Chennai.

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