A 56-year-old PWD clerk from Kannur district in Kerala, who was declared brain dead at a private hospital in Mangaluru, gave a new lease of life to five patients in Karnataka. The donor’s family went out of the way to fulfil his last wish by requesting the Kerala police to do the inquest in Mangaluru.
Ramesh K.V, the donor, was found in an unconscious state by passers-by near Chirakkal Railway Station in Kannur on February 13. According to his family, Mr. Ramesh fell while he had gone out on his bicycle to buy groceries.
According to Jeevasarthakathe, Karnataka’s State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) that facilitated the organ donation, Mr. Ramesh was initially admitted to the Government District Hospital in Kannur and eventually to First Neuro Hospital in Padil, Mangaluru, for specialty treatment where doctors declared him brain dead. The patient was certified brain dead at A.J. Hospital in Mangaluru on February 18.
