The vital organs of a 17-year-old brain-dead student, who had met with an accident, were harvested in Chikkamagaluru on September 22 and transported to Bengaluru, Manipal and Mangaluru.
A team of surgeons harvested the heart, kidneys, liver and corneas from the body. The heart was carried to Bengaluru by helicopter. The district administration and the police arranged for a green corridor to facilitate transportation of the organs.
Rakshitha, a native of Somanahalli in Kadur taluk, suffered a head injury on September 18 after falling while getting off a bus in Chikkamagaluru. The doctors who treated her at the district hospital declared her brain dead.
