Four persons got a new lease of life with the family members of a 17-year-old girl at Payyavur in Kerala’s Kannur district, who was declared brain dead, donating her organs.
The girl, Ayona Monson, who sustained critical injuries after jumping off the third floor of Sacred Heart Higher Secondary School at Payyavoor in Kannur on Monday, was admitted to a hospital in Kozhikode. She succumbed to her injuries at the hospital on Wednesday night.
Following the declaration of brain death by the doctors on Wednesday night, her family consented to donate her organs, which will now give new life to four patients in Thalassery, Kozhikode, and Thiruvananthapuram.
One of Ayona’s kidneys was transported to the Government Medical College in Thiruvananthapuram aboard an Indigo domestic flight, at 11 am, using a green corridor from the airport. This is the first organ donation using a domestic flight service.
Earlier, Navy aircraft, government-hired helicopters, and other vehicles were used to transport organs as part of the transplantation procedure.
Her other kidney was allocated to a patient at MIMS Hospital, Kozhikode while her liver was sent to Meitra Hospital in Kozhikode. The corneas were handed over to the Government Medical College, Kozhikode.