
Heart of brain-dead youth taken from Kochi to Kozhikode
The Hindu
Kidneys, hands, liver and corneas too donated to different patients
The heart of a brain-dead youth was taken in a special ambulance by road from Kochi to Kozhikode for a transplant on Saturday. The surgery is on as this report goes to the press.
According to sources, the parents of Nevis, 25, of Kottayam, who died at Rajagiri Hospital here, donated the organs of their son as a humanitarian gesture. He was declared brain dead on Friday night. His heart, kidneys, hands, liver, and corneas were donated to different patients under the State government’s Mrithasanjeevani, Kerala Network for Organ Sharing.
The ambulance carrying the heart left Kochi at around 4.15 p.m. and reached Metromed International Cardiac Centre, Kozhikode, at 7.15 p.m. A five-hour-long surgery to transplant the heart to another patient began thereafter.

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