Seventeen-year-old Harshita was declared brain dead on April 29 at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here. But today, she lives on through the lives of five other people who were donated her organs.
Sometimes when all else fails, hearing it from the horse's mouth might be more convincing. Patient support groups are all about that actually – hearing about it from the person who has seen it, and more importantly, felt it all.
Even in her death, she gave a new lease of life to at least five persons. Harshita (17), a brilliant student and national-level Table Tennis (TT) player, who suffered from a hemorrhagic stroke, was declared brain dead on April 29 at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
A migrant labourer from Bihar, who had a fall from the second floor of a building under construction and declared brain dead by the Government General Hospital, on Tuesday gave life to three persons. His two kidneys and a liver were donated to patients in different city hospitals.
ey employees of a hospital are: doctors, nurses, staff -- and now grief counselors. On them falls the tough job of introducing organ donation to families grieving for their dead.
A transplant co-ordination workshop being organised by MOHAN Foundation will be held in the city from April 18.
Parents of a 40-day-old infant, Sonu, have donated eyes and heart valves for organ harvesting, after the baby was declared brain dead due to health complications.
A 65-year-old retired engineer, Raja Krishna Tirumalasetty, who passed away due to a massive bleeding in the brain after an angioplasty on Sunday, has given a fresh lease of life to patients waiting for organ transplantation.
Most religions support multi-organ donation and there would be no mutilation of the body while the organ, be it the heart, kidney or liver, was removed for transplantation, said K. Raghuram, chief executive of Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation, here on Monday, dispelling some of the common misconceptions. The organisation had a strong presence in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, he said.
