The vital organs of a teen-aged girl student, who met with an accident on April 25 in Udumalpet in Tirupur district and was declared brain-dead, were harvested at a private hospital. The organs were promptly transplanted to the needy patients.

16-year-old Malini, a school student met with accident on her way back home. She suffered serious head injuries because she was not wearing helmet. After administering first aid at the Udumalpet Government Hospital, she was brought to the Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH) here in Coimbatore.

When she did not respond to emergency treatments, the girl was declared brain-dead the next day. Her parents volunteered to donate her vital organs. Accordingly, her lung was given to Chennai Frontier Life Line Hospital, and liver and kidneys were transplanted at KMCH, while her eyes were donated to Aravind Eye Hospital in Coimbatore.

”Our child was very talented. She had scored 476 marks in her Class X board examination. Her loss is unbearable to our family. By donating her organs, we feel that it would at least help someone to live their life fully. So, we wholeheartedly agreed to donate her organs,” the hospital’s press release, quoting Malini’s father Kalimuthu, a farmer, and mother Velumani, a mill employee, said.