Patients in Chennai, Tiruchi, and Madurai were helped by organs harvested from a brain-dead man by surgeons of the city’s Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital (MGMGH) with the consent of the bereaved family.
According to an official statement on Monday, the patient in his 60s from Viswakudi in Perambalur district was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital on April 19 with a grievous head injury. He was declared brain-dead on April 21.
Upon being counselled, the bereaved family agreed to donate his organs.
