Heart, two kidneys and liver of a brain dead person were transplanted on four patents at different hospitals in Kolkata on July 16, doctors said.

The deceased was a 36-year-old resident of Memari in Burdwan district who was gravely injured when a lorry had hit the two-wheeler he was riding from behind last Wednesday and taken to the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital. After his condition deteriorated, he was brought to a city-based private nursing home, where he was declared brain dead on July 15 afternoon following which his family decided to donate his organs, a spokesperson of the nursing home said.

The man's heart went to 25-year-old youth of Dankuni, who is being treated at the Calcutta National Medical College, one of his two kidneys was transplanted to a 19-year-old girl at a private hospital in the city's Ekbalpur area, the spokesperson said. The other kidney went to a city-based 56-year-old man, who was suffering from chronic kidney failure, at a private hospital in the city's EM Bypass area.

The deceased's liver was transplanted to a 54-year- old resident of Bangaon, at the SSKM hospital and his skin was stored at the skin bank there while the cornea was sent to Disha hospital. The Kolkata Police created separate green corridors in the morning for a quick transportation of the organs to the SSKM hospital, Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital and the two private hospitals. "We are very happy to donate organs of my brother. We will believe that he will be alive in this manner. His organs have given new lives to these people," the deceased's brother said.