Indora's Navneet gives new lease of life to three persons

In a moving act of courage and compassion, the family of 23-year-old Navneet from Gangath in Indora Assembly constituency in Kangra district chose to donate his vital organs, granting a new lease of life to three critically ill patients at the PGI, Chandigarh, and the RML Hospital, Delhi.

Navneet, an engineering student studying in Chandigarh, suffered a severe head injury after accidentally falling from the roof of his house on July 3. Despite his family’s immediate efforts to save him by rushing him to the PGI, doctors declared him brain dead on July 11.

Faced with unimaginable grief, Navneet’s father, Janak Singh, made the heart-wrenching yet noble decision to donate his son’s organs. His entire family, including mother Anju, sister Pooja Devi and grandmother Satya Devi, stood united in support of the life-saving gesture. They agreed to donate Navneet’s heart, kidneys and pancreas to patients desperately waiting for transplants.

PGI’s organ transplant team, led by Prof Ashish Sharma from the Renal Transplant Department, extracted the organs successfully. Since no suitable recipient for a heart transplant was available at the PGI, the heart was urgently flown to RML Hospital in Delhi. A special green corridor was created in a joint effort by the Chandigarh and Mohali Police, CISF and the Airport Authority. The organ was swiftly transported via an Indigo flight under the coordination of the Regional and National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisations (ROTTO and NOTTO).

At RML Hospital, the heart saved the life of a 26-year-old patient. Meanwhile, in PGI, one of Navneet’s kidneys along with his pancreas was transplanted into a patient suffering from type-1 diabetes, while the second kidney gave hope to another individual who had been on dialysis for several years due to chronic renal failure.

Speaking to The Tribune from Haridwar, Janak Singh said, “It was the most emotional and difficult decision of our lives. But when we realised our son’s organs could save three lives, we knew this was the right thing to do. Navneet’s legacy will now live on in the lives of those he saved.”