CHENNAI: When the doctors at KG Hospital in Coimbatore declared a 38-year-old road traffic victim brain dead on Saturday, the state cadaver transplant registry in the state recorded the 100th cadaver organ donation since its inception in October 2008. In the last two years, the registry has networked with over 500 hospitals in the city besides hospitals transplant centres across the country.
After the brain death of the patient on Saturday, the heart was allotted to Frontier Lifeline and the liver to Sri Ramachandra University.

The kidneys were retained by KG Hospital. The harvest is expected to begin in the wee hours of Sunday. Almost simultaneously, the Government General Hospital also recorded a brain death and the registry was networking with other hospitals to find suitable recipients.”In the past two years, we have seen moving stories of voluntary donations. In fact, the registry is still in the infancy stage. To encourage more and more people we have been relaxing rules for donations. ….Readmore