In the Union Territory, where organ donation is yet to take off, parents of a trainee constable, who went into coma after a road accident, donated his organs to the Ramachandra Medical College and Hospital in Chennai on Thursday.
G Raja (26) met with an accident near the toll gate on Puducherry-Tindivanum highway on the day of Ayudha Puja, when the two-wheeler in which he was travelling was hit by a speeding van, said Raja’s maternal uncle Muruganandham.
Raja suffered serious head injuries in the accident and was brought to JIPMER. Subsequently, he was taken to the Ramachandra Hospital in Chennai.
However, Raja slipped into coma and after three days of treatment doctors couldn’t find any improvemnent in his condition. He was declared brain dead.
Raja’s father, a tailor, and mother, a house wife, were counselled about organ donation. Thereafter the parents donated the liver, heart and two kidneys at 5.30 am on Thursday.
Immediately the heart and the two kidneys were transplanted to three patients, though the identity of the recipients has not been revealed, said Muruganandham. The liver would be given to five recipients, doctors in the hospital told Muruganandham.
Though the parents were desolate in losing their son, who is the eldest of the three and the sole breadwinner of the family, they have some consolation feeling that their son remains alive through the organs donated.