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Organs of 20-year-old accident victim from Mysuru donated

Organs of a 20-year-old youth from Pandavapura, who met with a road accident while riding a motorcycle near a sugar factory there recently, were donated after he was declared brain dead in a hospital in Mysuru.

The youth, E.A. Prajwal, was brought to Apollo BGS Hospital in Mysuru on August 30 after the road mishap. An initial CT scan showed a brain stem infarct and he was shifted to ICU immediately for life support and intensive care.

He was kept on life support while he was in a very critical state. On September 2, he was declared brain dead due to brain stem failure as per the protocol stipulated by Transplant of Human Organs Act 1994 by a panel of doctors at Apollo BGS Hospitals, Mysuru, according to a statement here.

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