KOCHI: A six-year-old school student, who triggered a massive organ donation campaign which won the admiration of the Prime Minister himself, has passed away but after giving new life to the ailing.
Bhavana Lakshmi, the second standard student of St Mary’s UP School, South Chittoor, near here, was affected by brain tumour one-and-a-half years ago.
After she was declared brain-dead by doctors at Aster Medcity here on Wednesday, her parents, Murthy and Prasanna, an auto driver-housewife couple, decided to donate her organs.
The transplant surgery was done on Thursday and her liver gave new life to a 51-year-old man from Thrissur while her two kidneys were given to Lakeshore Hospital.
“She inspired the students of the school to understand the dimensions of organ donation,” says Ms Shajimol K. Thomas, headmistress of the school.
PM Narendra Modi had congratulated her in his Mann Ki Baat programme in October last.
