Dec 18, 2020, 13:19 IST
SURAT: A two-and-a-half-year-old organ donor from Gujarat s Surat gave new life to seven people including two kids from Russia and Ukraine . The boy s parents agreed to donate his organs after he was declared brain dead following an accident.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Jash Sanjeev Oza had fallen from the second floor of his neighbour s house at Bhatar area on December 9 while he was playing there.
He was declared brain dead on December 14 by doctors after he suffered brain haemorrhage, said an NGO on Wednesday, which had facilitated the entire organ donation process.
The boy s heart, lung, kidneys, liver and eyes were donated after consent from Jash s father Sanjeev Oza, a journalist who decided to donate his organs after officials of the NGO, Donate Life, approached him, the organisation said in a release.
Gujarat: Declared braindead after fall from 2nd floor, toddler gives new life to five
Gujarat: Declared braindead after fall from 2nd floor, toddler gives new life to five
The toddler gave a new lease of life to five people, including two kids from Russia and Ukraine, when his parents donated his organs after he was declared brain dead following an accident.
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UPDATED: December 17, 2020 16:35 IST
Jash was declared brain dead by doctors a few days after he suffered brain haemorrhage due to the fall from the second floor.
A two-and-a-half-year-old organ donor gave new life to five people in Gujarat s Surat. The toddler gave a new lease of life to five people, including two kids from Russia and Ukraine, when his parents donated his organs after he was declared brain dead following an accident.
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Gujarat: Organs of brain dead toddler donated to five children
Gujarat: Organs of brain dead toddler donated to five children
A toddler s parents donated his organs to five children, including two from Russia and Ukraine, after he was declared brain dead following an accident in Gujarat on Wednesday.
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A toddler s parents donated his organs to five children, including two from Russia and Ukraine, after he was declared brain dead following an accident in Gujarat on Wednesday.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Jash Sanjeev Oza was declared brain dead by doctors a few days after he suffered brain haemorrhage after he fell from the second floor of a house in his neighbourhood while playing, said Donate Life, an NGO, which facilitated the entire process, news agency PTI reported .
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.