Jammu and Kashmir

organ donation

Manjot Singh Kohli

Samreen Akhtar

Deepika Singh Rajawat

Manjot Singh Kohli with Samreen Akhtar

Manjot Singh Kohli with Samreen Akhtar

The authorisation committee inforhas rejected the appeal made by a Sikh girl,, who wanted to donate her kidney to her Muslim friendas the latter is suffering from organ failure and desperately needs a kidney to survive.Kohli, 23, is a resident of Udhampur in Jammu. She said, "I am not scared of anything, and now I am planning to approach court for it."Her lawyertold Mirror, "We are waiting for the order copy of Authorization Committee. We will approach the court. Being a parent I can understand the sentiments of a father, but we have to think of someone's life also.” Kohli's father Gurdeep Singh had stated publicly that he is against the idea of his daughter donating her kidney.Director Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Prof Javed Shah, who is also chairperson of the committee, told Mirror that there are legal issues in the case.He said, "We have checked the entire case and the panel had unanimously decided not to authorize the donation. Even her father Gurdeep Singh had sent us a legal letter and panel has taken a serious note of it. In the letter, he had said that his daughter was being pressured to donate her kidney.”Manjot’s father has alleged that she is doing it without informing her parents, and someone is misguiding her.Earlier Samreen’s mother had decided to donate her kidney but she was declared unfit by the doctors.The family then went public with Samreen’s medical condition and posted it on social networks for relatives and friends to see. But none of the relatives turned up. It was then Manjot who contacted the family and expressed her willingness to donate her kidney.