Gokul, son of Kaliappan of Karadivavi near here, met with an accident recently while driving a car and was admitted to Kovai Medical Centre and Hospital (KMCH) in a serious condition.
He did not respond to the treatment and was declared brain dead, hospital sources said.
On the permission of his relatives, harvesting of organs was carried out today at the hospital and one of the boy's kidneys was transplanted to Kaliappan, suffering from renal failure.