Thiruvananthapuram: “Can I donate my daughter's organs for another child who is fighting for her life?” asked Ajit S R mere hours after his 3 year old daughter was declared brain dead a day after doctors diagnosed her tumour. After conversation with the grieving father, doctors transplanted Anjana's kidneys and liver to a 5 year old boy suffering with kidney and liver problems admitted in the KIMS hospital. “My wife's nephew struggled for months for a donor to help him live, they just couldn't find a kidney donor for long. We saw the family struggle. It was then that I told my wife, if one of us dies, the other should readily agree to allow the organs to be donated,” Ajit told the media. “I had no idea that time that our daughter would be our test.”
Dr Noble Gracious, a top officer with the Kerala Network For Organ Sharing, said, “These days relatives come forward to donate organs of the person who has died.”
Kerala has a record of second highest donors after Tamil Nadu and has already had 95 major organ donations till July, this year. Anjana's older brother Arjun, six, wants her photograph framed in their car. He may not know his sister just became Kerala's youngest donor. His parents hope someday he will.
