Little Boy Saves Four Lives on Death Bed
On his death bed a seven-year old boy saved four lives.
Alexei Yelisayev was suffering from brain tumor. On his death bed he donated his organs which saved four other lives, the Jerusulum Post reported.
The boy’s family had agreed to donate his liver to a 27-year-old woman at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva; his heart and lungs to a seven-year-old boy at nearby Schneider Children’s Medical Center; a kidney to a three-year-old boy at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center; and the other kidney to an 18-year-old woman also at Rambam.
The boy was born in Israel and loved books and toys about science, the paper reported.
All the surgeries were carried out on same day and they were successful as well.
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