Organs of skateboard accident victim save five

Five lives were saved from six organs donated by the family of a boy, Yotam Melamed who fell from a skateboard.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Transplant Surgeon 370 (photo credit: Courtesy Beilinson Hospital)
Transplant Surgeon 370
(photo credit: Courtesy Beilinson Hospital)
Five lives were saved on Sunday from six organs donated by the family of a boy, Yotam Melamed, who fell from a skateboard last week and suffered severe and irreversible brain damage that led to his death.
After it became certain that he had suffered from lower-brain death, the family agreed to donate his organs at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. All the transplants were performed at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus.
One lung was given to a 52-year-old man and the other to a 63-year-old man. The liver went to a 57-year-old man, and one kidney and pancreas were transplanted into a 36-year-old woman and the other kidney into a 23-year-old man.
In addition, Melamed’s corneas were removed for transplant at Sourasky on Monday.