Bhubaneswar: The family of a youth from Odisha’s Koraput, who was declared brain dead after a tragic accident, donated his organs and gave a new lease of life to five individuals.
Ashish Choul Singh (22) was staying with his sister Sasmita and brother-in-law Amit Pradhan in Sunabeda’s DP Camp area. A trained ITI fitter, he was working as an apprentice at HAL. On April 1, he was grievously injured after his motorcycle collided with a car near Sunabeda B Zone square. He was rushed to HAL Hospital in critical condition and then admitted to Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College in Koraput as his condition deteriorated. He was later shifted to a private hospital in Visakhapatnam, where he succumbed to his injuries late in the night on April 5.
The hospital team then sensitised the youth’s family about organ donation, and the latter gave consent to it overcoming their personal grief. “We issued the necessary permissions for organ retrieval from the youth. Subsequently, two kidneys, liver, pancreas, and small bowel were retrieved. The organs were allocated based on seniority, in adherence to the AP’s Jeevan Dan protocol,” Dr K Rambabu, state coordinator of AP’s Jeevan Dan programme, told the media.
The police then facilitated transportation of the organs to hospitals via green channel.
Ashish’ family expressed pride that, even in death, he gave new life to five others. His last rites were conducted at Swargadwar in Puri.
Ashish’s father had died in 2021 due to COVID-19, and his mother passed away in 2024.
