In death, Isaac gives new life to six persons

Isaac George 
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Kottarakara-native Isaac George’s untimely demise will leave a void forever in the hearts of his loved ones but his heart will now beat in another youngster, giving him another chance at life.

Even in her moment of intense grief and desolation, Isaac’s wife Nancy’s brave decision to donate all salvageable organs to others has given new hopes to not one but six families.

Following her consent for organ donation, Isaac’s heart was harvested and flown in an air ambulance on Thursday morning to Lisie Hospital in Kochi where it was transplanted into a 28-year-old Angamaly native who had been waiting for a donor heart under the government’s deceased donor organ donation programme, Mrithasanjeevani.

One kidney and liver will be transplanted into patients with end stage organ failure awaiting organs at KIMSHEALTH and the other kidney was taken in for a renal failure patient at Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. Both corneas were harvested for patients at the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Thiruvananthapuram.

Hit by two-wheeler

Isaac George (33), a restaurateur in Kottarakara in Kollam district, was hospitalised following a road accident at Kizhakketheruvu Pallimukku at Kottarakara on September 6. He was hit by a two-wheeler while he was crossing the road in front of his restaurant .

He was initially taken to a hospital at Kottarakara and on September 7, he was admitted to KIMSHEALTH. Doctors confirmed his brain death three days later. The second and final confirmation of brainstem death was certified by the hospital authorities following the mandatory processes on Wednesday evening.

Isaac is survived by his wife, two-year-old daughter Amelia, and mother, Mariamma.

K-SOTTO, the government’s apex body responsible for the smooth conduct of Mrithasanjeevani, coordinated and made the organ donations possible.