Thursday, November 6, 2008
Doctors discover organ donor is not brain dead
The Chennai Hospital in India, received a call from a private hospital in Namakkal stating that the family of a 59-year old accident victim was willing to donate his organs for transplant on Saturday. Arrangements were made in Chennai to do multiple organ harvesting. However , the second mandatory inspection found that the man was not brain dead, and his eyeballs were responding to light. The authorities, suddenly, went into caution mode. Later it was found out that when the patient arrived at the hospital no neurosurgeon had declared the patient brain dead. I found this article scary to think that my organs could be cut out of my body before i was even brain dead. It goes to show the lack of efficacy in the medical world.
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I also saw this article and posted a blog on it. It definitely raises some good points. Good job on your review of it :)
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