Bengaluru's Victoria Hospital harvests organs of brain stem-dead woman

Bengaluru: Doctors at Victoria Hospital have harvested the heart, heart valves, lungs, liver, kidneys, corneas and skin of a brain stem-dead patient who had hanged herself on May 5, helping multiple patients awaiting transplants.

Shreelakshmi R, a 43-year-old homemaker, was found hanging at her home in Srinagar and was brought to the Trauma and Emergency Centre for treatment, but was unresponsive when she was admitted.

Despite emergency medical efforts, doctors later found no signs of recoverable brain stem activity. Doctors conducted tests twice to assess brain stem activity — at 1.50 pm and again at 8.06 pm — in keeping with the required medical protocol. Her husband, Sudarshan A, consented to donate her organs to help patients in need, the hospital said.