Vital Organs of Brain-Dead Boy Harvested by Doctors

Doctors at the Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH) in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, revealed that they have harvested the vital organs of a 16-year old boy who was brain dead following an accident.

Sanjay Suresh was severely injured following an accident last Friday and doctors at the hospital declared him brain dead on arrival.

A Second Chance at Life: Tissue and Organ Transplantation
Organ and tissue transplantation can give a second chance at life to thousands of people. Learn more about this interesting procedure.

Suresh, who was studying in Class 10, had already decided to donate his eyes on his death and acting on his wish, his parents decided to donate all of his vital organs.

The organs were harvested at KMCH and were donated to needy patients in the state with the kidneys being retained at the hospital, eyes donated to Sankara Eye Care Centre in Coimbatore while heart valves and liver were sent to Global Hospitals in Chennai.

Source-Medindia

About Transplantation
Since the early times, the novel idea of transplanting tissues and other body parts from one organism to the other has captured the imagination of successive generations.

Bone Marrow Transplantation - Types - Procedure - Indications - Complications
Preferred Term is Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. In this stem cell from bone marrow are injected into a recipient after treating them with growth factor.

Bone Marrow Transplantation
Animation and slides providing graphic explanation of Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)/Stem Cell Transplantation that is done for leukemia and other blood-related disorders.