Saving Lives

It was a usual day when trackmen, 60-year-old Priyaswami and 55-year-old Ram Niwas were out on their duty examining the railway tracks between Yamuna Bridge and Tilak Bridge around 7.55am. It was at the time; the men noticed a six-inch gap on a section of track.

This call from home left him rooted to the spot as his world fell apart like a pack of cards. His 27-year-old daughter, Jyoti, had collapsed and died suddenly.

Led by 40-year-old Jitendra Vishe from Shahapur, a civil engineer by profession in Navi Mumbai, a group of railway commuters on Thursday morning raised over Rs 30,000 at Asangaon station.

When their driver stepped off the vehicle to open the gates of their home, a speeding car rammed into their vehicle, severely injuring Meera and Ashwini who were in the backseat.

This 76-year-old former nurse at Safdarjung hospital before dying expressed her wish to donate her organs, including her skin, to her family.

Jayamma, a resident of Kurubarahalli, had to rush out of her house on Friday evening as water fiercely gushed into her living area and upon hitting the road, she remembered her tenants’ children who were trapped in their houses.

Coming to Rekha's rescue was the heart of a 20-year-old Kushal Goswami, who was declared brain dead following a road accident on Saturday.

One of the oldest neighbourhoods in the Kolkata, Kasba, did not turn a blind eye to the agony of an 80-year-old woman wandering without purpose and no companion in sight.

While his heart was flown to Mumbai and transplanted in three-year-old girl Aaradhya Yogesh Mule, a resident of Navi Mumbai; his kidneys will be transplanted in a 15-year-old boy from Deesa in Banaskantha district, battling renal failure for over 10 years.

On an average, the distance takes over 90 minutes to cover owing to the traffic. But when the police, public and local television channels joined hands, the ambulance carrying the child reached the airport in less than 26 minutes.