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Parents Donate ‘Brain Dead' Girl's Organs
November 22, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Organ Donation News
Shankari's eyes were donated to LV Prasad Eye Institute and one each of her kidneys to Kamineni and Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences.
Kamineni officials refused to provide any details of Shankari's parents stating that they did not wish to be identified.
The liver transplant surgery was performed in the second week of October, when Shankari was declared ‘brain died'. Doctors revealed details on Wednesday after the recovery of the recipient, Purushottam Bhai Kanji Bhai, a retired engineer from Surat, Gujarat.
Dr G. Satyanarayana who headed the transplantation team, said Mr Kanji was suffering from hepatitis B and cirrhosis. "He had developed a liver tumour that was spreading," the doctor said.
Mr Kanji had registered himself at Delhi, another hospital in the city as well as with Kamineni Hospitals.
Dr Satyanarayana said, "Shankari was treated in major cancer hospitals for six months. She was in a terminal stage and admitted to our hospital while unconscious."
"Experts who were not part of the transplantation team confirmed that Shankari was brain dead. The parents offered to donate the organs of Shankari's body," Dr Satyanarayana said.
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