In 1975, a 21 year old Karen Ann Quinlan, collapsed after coming home. Before the paramedics arrived, she stopped breathing TWICE for more than 15 minutes or more!!! She was taken to a hospital and she lapsed into a "persistent vegetative state". After months of ventilation support (breathing support using a machine), her parents requested the hospital to stop ventilation support. The hospital refused and the matter went to court. The court ruled in favour of the parents and the hospital removed the ventilation support. But do you know what happened? Karen lived in the same persistent vegetative state for another 10 years without ventilation support !!!
Do you know that kids born without even a brain have lived for more than 2 years? The condition is called anencephaly.
From the above two examples alone - you can realize that "brain death" is a load of crap.... What is true is that there is a huge demand for infant organs. And as long as such a demand exists and when patients are willing to pay huge sums of money, the doctors will hurry to classify even coma patients as brain-dead.
Now, read the following chronology of what happened to a small kid in bangalore - see how the doctors butchered a living kid and then donated his organs.
Dec 12, 2014 : A 2 year and 10 month old kid was admitted in a hospital for a simple high fever (not for any other organ problem). Doctors gave an injection but there was no improvement in the kid's condition (this is the only information available online about the treatment given)
Dec 14, 2014 : The kid is shifted to Manipal Hospital.
Dec 18, 2014 : At 4.30 p.m the kid is declared "brain dead" and zonal coordination committee of Karnataka is informed (ZCCK). The zcck informs other private hospitals in karnataka and nearby states about the availability of organs.
Dec 19, 2014 : By 2.00 p.m the heart was in chennai (Fortis Malar Hospital) to be fitted into a russian kid.
In short - within a week - a living kid with fever was butchered so that the merchants of death could benefit hugely by transplanting his heart, liver, eyes and kidneys!!!! It is even more disturbing to know that the same hospital in Adyar had resorted to the same tactic on September 3, 2014 to fit a 37 year old woman's heart into a 60 year old patient.
Some disturbing questions :
What exactly is "brain death"? Brain has so many parts - so how do you define brain death? Death of cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, right side brain, left side brain, cortex, neocortex or death of all these put together?
Does India have any legal definition for brain death or can the doctors arbitrarily decide it?
If the donor kid was declared brain dead on Thursday - how did his heart survive until Friday afternoon? Normally heart becomes useless within 6 hours of death. Therefore, if the heart was functioning until Friday afternoon - it only means that the kid was alive even on Friday. Is it not?
If the kid was alive even on Friday - it means that the doctors "killed" the kid when they removed his heart. It is accepted by everybody that if the heart is beating, the person is alive. So how come the doctors in Manipal hospital and Fortis Malar hospital alone chose to call the patient "dead"? I really cannot understand how someone can be called dead if his heart is beating!!!! Somebody please enlighten me.
It is really surprising that no Indian kid needed a heart transplant and that only a Russian kid was in need in India for a heart!!! Is there any transplant registry that is maintained nation wide? The very fact that zcck had to inform hospitals about the availability of organs shows that there is no such nation wide registry. If the registry was available - there was no need to inform all the hospitals. It would be enough to inform only one hospital where the organ was needed.
Based on the facts available, I am led to believe that one little kid was cut open to satisfy the greed of doctors and the need of rich recipients.
Do you know that kids born without even a brain have lived for more than 2 years? The condition is called anencephaly.
From the above two examples alone - you can realize that "brain death" is a load of crap.... What is true is that there is a huge demand for infant organs. And as long as such a demand exists and when patients are willing to pay huge sums of money, the doctors will hurry to classify even coma patients as brain-dead.
Now, read the following chronology of what happened to a small kid in bangalore - see how the doctors butchered a living kid and then donated his organs.
Dec 12, 2014 : A 2 year and 10 month old kid was admitted in a hospital for a simple high fever (not for any other organ problem). Doctors gave an injection but there was no improvement in the kid's condition (this is the only information available online about the treatment given)
Dec 14, 2014 : The kid is shifted to Manipal Hospital.
Dec 18, 2014 : At 4.30 p.m the kid is declared "brain dead" and zonal coordination committee of Karnataka is informed (ZCCK). The zcck informs other private hospitals in karnataka and nearby states about the availability of organs.
Dec 19, 2014 : By 2.00 p.m the heart was in chennai (Fortis Malar Hospital) to be fitted into a russian kid.
In short - within a week - a living kid with fever was butchered so that the merchants of death could benefit hugely by transplanting his heart, liver, eyes and kidneys!!!! It is even more disturbing to know that the same hospital in Adyar had resorted to the same tactic on September 3, 2014 to fit a 37 year old woman's heart into a 60 year old patient.
Some disturbing questions :
What exactly is "brain death"? Brain has so many parts - so how do you define brain death? Death of cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem, right side brain, left side brain, cortex, neocortex or death of all these put together?
Does India have any legal definition for brain death or can the doctors arbitrarily decide it?
If the donor kid was declared brain dead on Thursday - how did his heart survive until Friday afternoon? Normally heart becomes useless within 6 hours of death. Therefore, if the heart was functioning until Friday afternoon - it only means that the kid was alive even on Friday. Is it not?
If the kid was alive even on Friday - it means that the doctors "killed" the kid when they removed his heart. It is accepted by everybody that if the heart is beating, the person is alive. So how come the doctors in Manipal hospital and Fortis Malar hospital alone chose to call the patient "dead"? I really cannot understand how someone can be called dead if his heart is beating!!!! Somebody please enlighten me.
It is really surprising that no Indian kid needed a heart transplant and that only a Russian kid was in need in India for a heart!!! Is there any transplant registry that is maintained nation wide? The very fact that zcck had to inform hospitals about the availability of organs shows that there is no such nation wide registry. If the registry was available - there was no need to inform all the hospitals. It would be enough to inform only one hospital where the organ was needed.
Based on the facts available, I am led to believe that one little kid was cut open to satisfy the greed of doctors and the need of rich recipients.
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