<p>The wish of a 26 year-old accident victim to donate his organs remained unfulfilled.</p>.<p>Dheeraj (26) and his friend Ganesh had sustained serious injuries when their two-wheeler had skidded and rammed into the divider near Usmania complex, opposite to Masood educational and charitable trust, in Bikarnakatte in wee hours on May 29.</p>.<p>Dheeraj, riding pillion, was thrown off the road and had sustained serious head injuries. The doctors at A J Hospital after conducting a battery of tests declared Dheeraj brain dead on Monday (at 8 pm). Dheeraj's parents, Venkatesh and Sujatha, decided to donate their son's organs as Dheeraj had been inspired by late actor Puneeth Rajkumar's act of donating his eyes.</p>.<p>No sooner did the parents express their desire to harvest his organs, did the hospital alert Jeevasarthakathe (SOTTO) and informed that the heart, heart valves, lungs, liver and kidneys could give a fresh lease of life to over six people. However, before the organs could be retrieved by experts, Dheeraj suffered a cardiac arrest and breathed his last.</p>.<p>"The teams from Bengaluru and Chennai that had landed at A J Hospital and Research Centre had to return empty-handed. Even the recipients on the waiting list for kidneys, who had rushed to the hospital, returned empty-handed," sources in Jeevasarthakathe (SOTTO) told DH.</p>
<p>The wish of a 26 year-old accident victim to donate his organs remained unfulfilled.</p>.<p>Dheeraj (26) and his friend Ganesh had sustained serious injuries when their two-wheeler had skidded and rammed into the divider near Usmania complex, opposite to Masood educational and charitable trust, in Bikarnakatte in wee hours on May 29.</p>.<p>Dheeraj, riding pillion, was thrown off the road and had sustained serious head injuries. The doctors at A J Hospital after conducting a battery of tests declared Dheeraj brain dead on Monday (at 8 pm). Dheeraj's parents, Venkatesh and Sujatha, decided to donate their son's organs as Dheeraj had been inspired by late actor Puneeth Rajkumar's act of donating his eyes.</p>.<p>No sooner did the parents express their desire to harvest his organs, did the hospital alert Jeevasarthakathe (SOTTO) and informed that the heart, heart valves, lungs, liver and kidneys could give a fresh lease of life to over six people. However, before the organs could be retrieved by experts, Dheeraj suffered a cardiac arrest and breathed his last.</p>.<p>"The teams from Bengaluru and Chennai that had landed at A J Hospital and Research Centre had to return empty-handed. Even the recipients on the waiting list for kidneys, who had rushed to the hospital, returned empty-handed," sources in Jeevasarthakathe (SOTTO) told DH.</p>
