Brain dead soldier’s organs donated to save 2 lives

Bhubaneswar: The family members of a CRPF soldier in Khurda district on Monday donated his heart and liver following his brain death. A doctor in the private hospital, where he died, said the two organs were carried to Kolkata and Mumbai to give a new lease of life to two persons.

According to sources in the hospital, Krushna Chandra Mahabhoi was serving as a havildar in CRPF in Jammu and Kashmir.

Suffering from a chronic kidney disease, he had been undergoing dialysis for some two years. He was found brain dead at a hospital here on March 20.

“After his brain death, we sought permission from the family members for organ donation and they agreed.

Subsequently, arrangements were made for that,” said Dr Alisha Choudhury of the private hospital.

Initially, the family was reluctant to allow doctors to take out the organs from his body.

‘’But my mother suggested that my father has devoted his life to the nation. Now, if two persons can survive with my father’s organ, that will also be a service. So, we agreed,” said the deceased’s son Satyabrata Mahabhoi.

Mahabhoi’s heart will be transplanted in a patient in Kolkata and liver in another patient in Mumbai, Satyabrata said.