US-based family donates body to Faridkot medical college

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, December 13

A family of doctors and engineers settled in America, on Thursday reached Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, to donate the body of an elderly person in the family, who died at their ancestral home in Abohar this week.

“My father has the wish that his cadaver should be used for the greater good of humanity and research and education,” said Dr Arun Kumar, a pass-out of 1979 MBBS batch of Government Medical College in Patiala, presently settled in USA.

Another girl of the family, Dr Anjali, is also a post-graduate course student in the chest and TB department here.

Besides, Dr Arun and Dr Anjali, other family members from America also reached Faridkot to donate the body of Charan Dass, an elderly in the family.

The body was donated to the anatomy department of the medical college, where it will be used for medical education and research.

The bodies are used for gross anatomy, surgical anatomy and for furthering medical education, said Dr Priti Chaudhary, head of the anatomy department in the medical college.

“Such donation is important for understanding the human body and for making advancements in science. There is no cost to donate a body to a medical college. Death is an automatic surrender of volition, but to donate means to know while dying that you have chosen that your cadaver should be used for the greater good of humanity,” said Dr Priti.