Surat zari maker’s organs add fresh sparkle to many lives

SURAT: While alive she added sparkle to the celebrations of many through her zari craft. In her death too, Minakshi Rana gave a new lease of life to a few.
The 41-year-old zari unit employee’s organs were harvested after she was declared brain-dead on Thursday. Rana succumbed to the head injuries she suffered in a road accident on November 9. Rana along with her husband Anil and son Krishna was going to a temple when their motorcycle met with an accident near Bardoli.
Rana’s kidneys, liver and two eyes were harvested by doctors after she was declared brain-dead by the doctors at INS Hospital here. The kidneys and liver were transplanted to patients in Ahmedabad while Rana’s eyes were collected by a local eye bank.
“The organs would have turned into ashes if not donated. Hence all our family members agreed on organ donation. A part of my wife will be alive in future too,” said Anil, also a zari unit employee.
Donate Life, an NGO working for organ donation awareness, coordinated the donation and also convinced the family. “The family members were kind enough to agree and donate the organs of a young family member who died sudden death due to an unfortunate accident,” said Nilesh Mandlewala, president of Donate Life.
The Rana family was travelling to Mahua to visit Vighneshwar Dada temple on the fateful day. “A woman was driving a moped just ahead of us. She was talking on her mobile phone while driving. Her moped slipped as there was paint spilled on the road in front of a shop on the Surat-Bardoli highway. As our bike was just behind her we too fell on the road,” Anil told TOI.
Rana’s head banged on the road and she lost consciousness. She was initially admitted to a hospital in Bardoli and later shifted to Surat’s INS Hospital as her condition turned critical.