P. Mahender

HYDERABAD: A heart-warming gesture by a coalmine worker from Karimnagar by donating the organs of his 26-year-old son, who was declared brain-dead in a city hospital on Sunday, could very well serve as an example for many others to follow.

P. Rajaiah, a worker in Kothagudem-based Singareni Collieries, was heartbroken with the news that his younger son P. Mahender was admitted to Poulomi Hospital in Sainikpuri on Saturday following an irreversible haemorrhage. Anxious and confused by the medical jargon, all that Rajaiah could gather by Saturday night was that his son would never come back from the coma that he had slipped into.

On Sunday morning, doctors confirmed that Mahender, an M. Tech degree holder in electronics and communication engineering, was brain-dead. That was when K. Raghuram of the Multi-Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation met Rajaiah.

The grief-struck worker, when told about how his son could give a fresh lease of life to several others, agreed to donate Mahender's organs and the body was shifted to Global Hospitals in Lakdikapul.

Mahender's kidneys and liver were harvested at Global. While the kidneys were donated to two patients at KIMS and Medwin Hospitals, the liver went to a patient who had been waiting for one for some time at Global Hospitals.

The decision to donate the organs of Mahender, who was working in the R&D department of city-based ICOMM Tele Ltd., was made by Rajaiah after consulting with his elder son Sampath, also an engineer. Mahender is survived by his mother Rangamma and three sisters.

The gesture by Mahender's parents is the second such one in the city this year. On January 15, the parents of 21-year-old Jijo Matthews, who succumbed to haemorrhage, had donated his organs to five patients in various city hospitals.

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