Tamil Nadu: Brain-dead student gives new life to eight

COIMBATORE: A 22-year-old man, who was declared brain dead after meeting with an accident last week, gave a new lease of life to eight people.
The donor, identified as S V Dhineesh, a final year BCom student in Salem, had sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle accident on Avinashi Road at Ganeshpuram here on Saturday. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and was later referred to Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH).
When Dhineesh was declared brain dead on Monday, his family came forward to donate his organs.
Multi-organ transplant surgeons of KMCH harvested his heart, kidneys, liver, eyes, skin and bone as per the guidelines of the transplant authority of Tamil Nadu (Transtan).
While a kidney and liver were transplanted to patients of KMCH, eyes, another kidney, bone and skin were transported to a private hospital in Coimbatore.
KMCH chairman Nalla G Palaniswami lauded the family for donating the organs and saving eight lives.