Brain dead girl brings joy to at least five people

A brain dead 15-year-old has brought joy to at least five people who received her two kidneys, liver, corneas and skin graft in the city.

A spokesman of the state-run Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (IPGMER), SSKM Hospital, said today that Mallika Majumder was declared brain dead by the institute yesterday.

She was diagnosed with a brain lesion after being admitted on July 23 and had slipped into coma on August 14, the spokesman said.

Her father Manik Majumder said over phone from Siliguri, "We were told by the doctors that there is no possibility of our daughter returning to life once she was declared brain dead. We were then convinced that if her organs could be transplanted on other persons she will continue to live among others. And that is our biggest consolation."
A relative of Das, who was a recipient of one of the kidneys, said, "I will not belittle Mallika's parents and the doctors by thanking them. Words fail to express our emotions."