Both kidneys and eyes of a brain-dead youth have given a fresh lease of life to four persons, thanks to the benevolence of the spouse of the deceased youth .
Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College Hospital gathered a huge medical team to perform a simultaneous double renal transplant on Wednesday to transplant the kidneys harvested from Balaramapuram-native Sharat Krishnan (32), who was declared brain-dead following a road traffic accident.
Two end-stage renal patients who were on the waiting list for kidneys under Mrithasanjeevani, the government’s deceased donor organ donation programme—a 48-year-old from Kaniyapuram and a 54-year-old from Mayyanad—were the organ recipients. Both the kidneys went to these persons with AB+ve blood group who were under treatment at MCH.
K-Sotto (Kerala State Organ Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) coordinated the transplant.
