The Kerala court has filed a case against the Kochi-based VPS Lakeshore Hospital and seven of its doctors on the basis of a complaint that an accident victim who had been certified brain dead had his organs removed against protocol. Lakeshore hospital belongs to Shamsheer Vayalil who is the son in law of M.A Yusuff Ali, the chairman and managing director of LULU group of International. Acting on a petition from Dr. S. Ganapathy of Kollam, the court of judicial magistrate in Ernakulam ruled that there is prima facie evidence of a case and adequate reasons to bring the hospital and doctors under the Transplantation of Human Organs Act.

 

The petitioner complained that the kidneys and liver of V.J. Abin, who was declared brain-dead after a motorbike accident, was harvested in contravention of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994. The case came to emergence in 2009. In 2009 a 19-year-old boy VJ Abin died after he met with a road accident. The boy was shifted to Lakeshore Hospital from Mar Baselious Hospital. Later, Abin’s mother, Omana, was told that her son was brain dead, and she was encouraged to donate his organs. However, doubts started emerging over the treatment given to the victim, and the procedure followed to declare him brain dead. It was later found that the liver taken out from Abin was transplanted to a foreign national without following the due procedure.

 

 

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