Brain death Vijayawada man donates organs to four patients
Thota manikanta will live in eight after his death. His vital organs are set to give a new life to patients in hospitals in Chennai, Hyderabad and Guntur. Manikanta heart to be transplanted into a patient in Chennai.
Your lungs will go to another city. One patient in Hyderabad have his liver and two patients in Guntur your kidneys. His eyes will be offered a vision of two patients Sankara eye hospitals, Guntur.
Superintendent of NRI Hospitals Buchhi K. Babu said that this was the first heart transplant ever cadaver conducted between Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Manikanta a 22-year-old, was a resident of Ramavarrapadu in Vijayawada.
On the night of March 3, driving back home when a vehicle crashed his car on the ring road in Vijayawada. Manikanta suffered serious head injuries and was rushed to hospital in Vijayawada Metro in critical condition.
A team of surgeons tried in vain to save his life. He was declared brain dead after a few hours. It was hospital doctors suggested to his family that his organs could save many lives. His sister, Nagajyothi Siva, who works as a nurse, gave his consent and the body was rushed to NRI Hospitals, Mangalagiri.