Bengaluru: Harish Nanjappa, the road accident victim who donated his organs even as he battled for life after being cut into two pieces is truly a hero.

Taking inspiration from this 27-year-old hero, the family of an 18-year-old brain-dead girl has donated her organs to four people.

The girl, Sanjana alias Sanju, hailed from Hassan and was a student of Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering in Mysuru.

She had met with an accident while riding pillion on a motorcycle with her friend near KRS dam in Mysuru on February 21.

With severe head injuries, she was rushed to Apollo BGS Hospital in Mysuru and then to Nimhans Bengaluru.

When the doctors told the family members that Sanjana cannot be saved, her parents decided to donate her organs just like Harish Nanjappa did.
With this decision, her heart, liver, kidneys and eyes were donated.

The family then contacted the Zonal Co-ordination Committee of Karnataka for Organ Transplantation and gave its consent to donate her organs.

Sanjana was shifted to the BGS Global Hospitals in Bengaluru at 12.15 pm on Thursday and her organs were retrieved. The retrieved heart was then taken to Narayana Health, Hosur Road, via a green corridor.

Meanwhile, her liver and a kidney were simultaneously transplanted into a 44-year-old woman from Bengaluru who was suffering from end-stage liver disease and a kidney failure. The recipient was on haemodialysis.

Sanjana’s corneas were sent to Narayana Nethralaya. The other kidney was taken to Victoria Hospital for transplant into another patient.

Outside BGS Global Hospital, Eerappa, Sanjana’s father knelt before the vehicle which brought Sanjana’s heart.

“She was the generous kinds. We thought, when she is no more, at least her organs should be of use to others,” he said.