Hyderabad: Brain dead woman’s organs save lives of 7

A woman who was declared brain dead gave a new lease of life to at least three persons by donating organs here at a Yashoda hospital of Malakpet branch on Thursday.

According to her family members, the woman, identified as Saidamma from Balanka in Nalgonda district is said to have gone into coma in her sleep and was shifted to Yashoda hospital in Malakpet.

The doctors who treated her for a week declared that she was brain dead. On learning it, the state-run organ donation initiative Jeevandhan approached the family members of the victim and persuaded them to donate her organs. Both the kidneys, liver, lungs and eye corneas of the woman were collected from the doctors and fixed them to the patients in critical conditions.