Brain-dead gives new life to three in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam: In a moving gesture, 21-year-old final year engineering student A. Sai  Kumar who was brain dead, gave a new lease of life to three patients on Sunday. The family members of Sai Kumar consented to donate Kumar’s organs (kidneys and liver) after Kumar was declared brain dead at Care Hospital on Sunday.

Sai Kumar became a role model of sorts for many youngsters in the region. According to Sai Paul, Coordinator of Care Hospital, Vizag, Sai Kumar was a final-year B.Tech student of Raghu College of Engineering in Vizag city.

On February 19 evening Sai Kumar met with a road accident when he was riding bike and received grievous head injuries. Kumar was admitted to Care Hospital in Vizag and he was pronounced brain dead by the medical team of Care Hospitals.

Following this information, members of Andhra Pradesh Body Donors Association, a body working in the area of organ donation, spoke to the family members and requested that Kumar’s organs be donated to the needy so that he could live on in others. His family members gave their consent while the members of the association informed officials of Jeevandhan organ transplant project.

On Sunday, officials of the project selected the receivers of the organs based on the priority list and few other parameters. Kumar’s kidneys and liver were donated to three people at Care and Manipal hospitals in the city.

A technical team from Chennai had reached Vizag to transport Kumar’s heart and lungs to Chennai.