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Dead NRI teenager saves lives through organ donation

LONDON: An NRI teenager has saved the lives of five strangers after a ‘chance remark’ to her mother led to her organs being donated after she died suddenly from meningitis.

The family of Ruby Nagra authorised doctors to give her organs to patients waiting for transplants after the 18-year-old succumbed to a virulent form of meningitis.

In the hours after Ruby’s death, her heart, liver, a lung and both kidneys were transplanted.

“We are so proud of what she has done,” Jasvinder Kaur, her mother was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph on Sunday. – PTI

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