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.console.log("catid body is "+catID);if(catID==120){document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none";var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://player.anyclip.com/anyclip-widget/lre-widget/prod/v1/src/lre.js'; script.setAttribute('pubname','jpostcom'); script.setAttribute('widgetname','0011r00001lcD1i_12258'); document.getElementsByClassName('divAnyClip')[0].appendChild(script);}else if(catID!=69 && catID!=2){ document.getElementsByClassName("divConnatix")[0].style.display ="none"; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = 'https://static.vidazoo.com/basev/vwpt.js'; script.setAttribute('data-widget-id','60fd6becf6393400049e6535'); document.getElementsByClassName('divVidazoo')[0].appendChild(script); }In addition, Melamed’s corneas were removed for transplant at Sourasky on Monday.
