Young table tennis paddler gave life to many after her death: Table Tennis News
A young National table tennis player in India gave new life to five people after her death. Harshita, a 17-year old girl, suffered a hemorrhagic stroke and was declared brain dead on April 29 at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India.
With her parents consent her organs were retrieved from her body which gave new lives to at least five people. Her heart was sent to Organ Retrieval Banking Organisation (ORBO), AIIMS, for preservation. Whenever the heart will find a match it will start
pumping in a new body.
Dr. Sujoy Shad, senior consultant cardiac surgeon at the hospital, said, "We could not find a matching recipient for her heart valves at that time. After due consultation with different city hospitals where there is a facility of heart transplant, we decided
to send the same to the ORBO for preservation."
Her kidney, liver and cornea have already been transplanted into patients. Her cornea was used to give sight to two patients and the results are positive. Her liver and kidneys are also transplanted in two different patients and it has given them a few more
years to live.
The father of the girl, Mahender Bahrech, said, "My daughter always wanted to work for a noble cause. Once she had unwittingly expressed the desire to donate her organs in case of a sudden death. We thought we should fulfil her wishes."
Harshita recently gave her board exams for class eight and she was preparing for the AIEEE exams. Fate deceived her and she felt seriously ill, doctors tried their level best, but death was inevitable and she couldn’t survive.
She wanted to be an engineer and a professional table tennis player. Harshita's brother Chaitanya supported his parents to take the decision of donating her organs as he knew that his sister supported the idea of organ transplantation and she supported the
idea of donating organs after death.
The hospitals in India have the facilities to perform transplant operation but 80% of the patients who needed a transplant die because there are no donors. Harshita has set an example for other people that you can be remembered even after your death.
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