Grieving family members of deceased Nandini in Vadodara
VADODARA: Losing hope she ended her life, but this 17-year-old Class XI student from Halol has ensured that critically ill patients don’t despair.
In the first case of organ donation by a suicide victim, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and eyes of this brain dead girl were given for transplantation in needy patients in Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, on Thursday.
Nandani Shah, whose parents run a beauty parlour in Halal town, was admitted to the city-based Savita Hospital on December 19 after she consumed poison. She breathed her last on Wednesday evening.
“Nandani was brought in a serious condition. She underwent treatment for five days, but we couldn’t save her. After brief counselling by doctors, her family agreed to donate her organs,” said Dr Tarang Sharma, medical administrator, Savita Hospital.