The National Transplant Center announced on Sunday that the family of Yuval Cohen, an Israeli who was fatally injured in an accident in Thailand, decided to donate his organs.
Cohen was injured in an accident in the city of Chiang Mai, where he was pronounced dead. He was transported back home to Israel at the request of his family to allow Yuval's wish to donate his organs to be realized.
Following his arrival at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva, he underwent strict medical procedures to confirm brain-respiratory death in accordance with the law. Subsequently, his organs were donated.
Four lives saved by Cohen's donation
Cohen's organs helped save the lives of several patients waiting for transplants.
Cohen's heart was transplanted into a 67-year-old man at Rabin Medical Center, his liver into a 62-year-old woman at Rabin Medical Center, one kidney into a 17-year-old boy at Schneider Children’s Medical Center for Israel, and another kidney into a patient at Hadassah Hospital.
Cohen’s family stated that “Yuval will be remembered in our hearts as someone whose last choice was to reach out and save others."