41 years old Smt. Kalpana Tiwari, is a housewife, with high ideals and motives to serve the society. Kalpana, an Andhra, married to a UP Brahmin, complained of chest pain and fell unconscious on the night of 28th June, when she was rushed to Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences. She was resuscitated immediately and put on ventilator by the emergency care doctors.
On the morning of 1st July, the doctors pronounced her “brain dead”. Immediately, members of Lions Club of Hyderabad East and MOHAN Foundation swung into action, and spoke to the family and requested them to donate her organs. Immediately, Sri. Manoj Tiwari recollected his wife mentioning that she would like her organs to be donated should something untoward happen to her.
On 8th February, Kalpana attended a “Prarthana Sabha” (Prayer Meeting) of yet another organ donor, Late Sri. Purushottam Malani, at which time Smt. Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director of MOHAN Foundation, spoke about the essence of organ donation, and how Sri. Malani’s family has helped save five lives by donating his organs. Kalpana went back home and informed her husband and said that she would like her organs to be donated should something happen to her.
MOHAN Foundation has been part of over a 1500 public education campaigns and routinely participates in prayer meetings of organ donors and lauds the family for their noble act.
Kalpana’s kidneys, liver, heart valves and eyes were donated and distributed among city hospitals. Manoj Tiwari, while grieving the loss of his loving wife, is happy in the knowledge that he has fulfilled his wife’s wishes and that she will continue to live in seven needy people.
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