10 Years Ago He Saved Hundreds By Averting A Train Accident, Now His Organs Will Save 8 More

In 2010, then 17-year-old 2010, Anujith had made headlines for his timely intervention that helped to avert a train accident in Kollam district in Kerala.

Anujith and his friend who were students at the time spotted a crack on the railway track and alerted the loco pilot of an approaching train by waving a red bag.

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The train was stopped on time and what could have been a major disaster was averted in the nick of time.

Now, the 27-year-old has given a new lease of life to eight more people.

His heart, kidneys, eyes, intestine and hands will live on, on others after his untimely death.

Anujith had met with a road accident near Kottarakkara last week and he was declared brain dead on July 17.

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Following this Anujith's wife, Princy came forward to donate his organs.

Both Anujith and Princy were already signatories of 'Mrithasanjeevani' - Kerala Network for Organ Sharing (KNOS), an initiative of the state government for voluntary organ donors.

Anujith's heart was donated to Thrippunithura-native Sunny Thomas who is under treatment at the Lisie Hospital in Kochi, and the receiver of hand and small intestine is undergoing treatment at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences.

As directed by the chief minister, a Pawan Hans AS 35 Dauphin helicopter rented by the state government, carried out the mission of collecting Anujith's organs from the Hyatt Hotel in Ernakulam on Tuesday.

This was the second time the rented helicopter was used to transport organs.

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Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and health minister KK Shailaja expressed condolences to the bereaved family and lauded them for the humanitarian gesture.??

"Anujith, let your donated heart beat for ever and ever. Let your donated hands paint thousands of pictures of sacrifice...

I am so fortunate to touch your heart.

You are the hero.. and not we doctors or our team," Dr. Jose Chako Periappuram, the surgeon who led the heart transplant wrote on Facebook.

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Anujith used to work as a driver before the lockdown and after he was left without any income, he took up a job at a supermarket as a salesman.

He was on his way back from work when he met with the accident last week.