Hyderabad: The heart of a brain dead 24-year-old man in Hyderabad was flown to Chennai to give a fresh lease of life to a recipient there.
Kaavuri Veera Brahman, Tata Group employee in Hyderabad, met with an accident and received serious head injuries. He was later declared brain dead.
The parents agreed to donate his organs under the Jeevandan scheme of the government. Accordingly, his heart, two kidneys and two corneas were harvested.
His father, Mr Kaavuri Rajender said, “We want the recipients to benefit from his organs. He could not be saved, three other lives are saved.”
Veera Brahman’s heart was sent to Chennai on Saturday as there was no recipient with a matching blood group in Telangana.
A green corridor was made at 6.10 am from Apollo Hospitals to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to facilitate the quick movement of the heart to Chennai. The kidneys and corneas were transplanted into recipients in the city. The organs of another brain dead donor were used in the city.
P. Venkat Reddy, 46, who was working with the endowment department in Nalgonda district, met with an accident on January 27. He was rushed to Yashoda Hospital but was declared brain dead on January 28.
His wife P. Laxmi, son Chandra Kumar Reddy and daughter Madhavi agreed to donate his two kidneys, the liver and the eyes to the Jeevandan scheme of the government. All the organs were used for recipients in the city.
