EIGHT-YEAR-OLD ORGAN DONOR CREMATED WITH FULL STATE HONOUR IN BHUBANESWAR

Bhubaneswar (04/03/2024): An eight-year-old boy, whose organs were donated after his death, was accorded full state honour in Bhubaneswar on Monday.

The last rites of the donor, Subhajit Sahu, were performed in Bhubaneswar on Monday. The guard of honour was accorded in the presence of Police Commissioner Sanjeev Panda and Bhubaneswar DCP Prateek Singh at Satya Nagar crematorium in Bhubaneswar. Subhrajit Sahu, a resident of Kalpana area in Bhubaneswar, had been undergoing treatment in the hospital for the last three days after suffering from a brain seizure.

Following a series of tests on Saturday, the boy was declared brain dead by the doctors. The bereaved family members of the child decided to donate his organs to save lives. His father Biswajit Sahu said, “I am proud of my son.

He was brave.

He died but saved the lives of many.

I work in the healthcare sector.

So I know how scarce is human organs.

People die waiting for donors.

So we came forward to donate his organs,” said On February 15, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced that the last rites of those who donate their organs would be done with full state honours. Full state honours mean all the arrangements will be made by the state government, which includes wrapping the body in tricolour and giving a 21-gun salute.

The government will also provide Rs 5 lakh from the chief minister’s fund to the relatives of the organ donors. The Odisha government in 2019 had set up the ‘State Organ & Tissues Transplant Organisation’ and instituted the Suraj Award for organ donors in 2020.