Brain dead engineering student gives new lease of life to 8

A brain dead engineering student has given new lease of life to eight persons who were transplanted with vital organs harvested from him.
A team of doctors from Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH) and Coimbatore government hospital harvested Ramesh's heart, liver, pancreas, kidneys, eyes and skin, this morning.
While the liver and one of the kidneys were given to KMCH, the heart and pancreas were sent to private hospitals in Chennai, and the other kidney, eyes and the skin were sent to private hospitals in the city, which gave new lease of life to eight persons, a KMCH release said.

Ramesh, an engineering student, met with an accident near Dharapuram in Tirupur district on February 22, while returning home from college on his motorcycle.
Though passersby rushed him to Dharapuram Government Hospital, Ramesh, who suffered serious head injuries, was later shifted to KMCH.
He was declared brain dead the next day morning and his family agreed to donate the organs, the release said.