The organs being taken to MGM Hospital in Chennai from Surat. (Express Photo)
A two-and-a-half-year-old child, declared brain dead following an accident, gave a new lease of life to seven children, including two from Russia and Ukraine, after his parents donated his organs. The child’s heart has been transplanted to a 4-year-old boy from Russia while his lungs were transplanted to another four-year-old child from Ukraine at MGM hospital in Chennai on Tuesday.
This is the second organ donation amid the Covid-19pandemic in Surat city.
On December 9, Jash Sanjiv Oza, a resident of Bhatar area in Surat, had accidentally slipped from the balcony of a neighbour’s flat on the second floor of the apartment. He was rushed to Amruta Hospital nearby where he underwent treatment for several days. On December 14, doctors declared him brain dead.