Surgeons from Kuala Lumpur Hospital carried out a 10-hour surgery to remove his organs at Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital here yesterday.

Several specialists from Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital helped the surgeons.

Sources said the man's parents, from Kedah, consented to the surgery after his son had willed to donate his vital organs before he was pronounced brain dead a few weeks ago.

It was learnt that the man's father, a businessman, had also planned to donate his son's heart but was turned down by doctors after he was found to have suffered from a congenital heart disease.
Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital director Dr Idris Ahmad confirmed the matter.

The man is the second organ donor from Kedah.

Last year, a woman from Baling donated her heart, tissues and kidneys to the country's first double organ transplant recipient, Siti Salmah Jasni.

New Straits Times/Asia News Network