A seven-year-old boy’s brain-dead organs have breathed new life into six patients in Kerala

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A seven-year-old boy who was declared brain dead after a road accident has become one of the youngest organ donors in Kerala after his family came forward to donate his organs.

Lokineni Yaashvan, a native of Hyderabad’s Tirumalagiri district who lived in Radhapuram taluk of Tirunelveli district, was hit by an ambulance on the night of June 29 while crossing the road on his bike in Anuvijay Township.

The seriously injured child was immediately rushed to a nearby medical center and was shifted to the intensive care unit of KIMSHEALTH, Thiruvananthapuram the same evening.

After his brainstem death was confirmed on July 5, his parents Lokineni Raghu and Sowmya Papparao expressed their willingness to donate his organs.

On Monday morning, the Kerala Organ Sharing Network, with the help of the state police, arranged a green corridor to transport one of the kidneys from Thiruvananthapuram to IQRAA Hospital in Kozhikode, where the organ will be transplanted to a 17-year-old boy from Kannur, who is suffering from end-stage renal disease.

Six organs – both kidneys, liver, corneas and a heart valve – are transplanted to patients waiting for organs for a new life in different parts of the state.

A liver is transplanted to a patient at KIMSHEALTH, while one of the kidneys is transplanted to a four-year-old child from Kottayam at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram.

Both corneas were obtained from the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology and the heart valve from the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology.

Published – 06 Jul 2026 13:28 IST