New lease on life: Khamisah smiling as she is visited by Hospital Kuala Lumpur Nephrology Department head Datuk Dr Ghazali Ahmad, National Transplant Resource Centre head Datin Dr Lela Yasmin Mansor and trainee nurse Ummi Aisyah at the intensive care unit. (Inset) Kidney donor Mahoney.
KUALA LUMPUR: Australian tourist Shelly Elizabeth Mahoney, who died after she was hit by a boom on her husband’s yacht during a storm near Penang, became Malaysia’s first cardiac death organ donor.
Before the procedure last Friday, Malaysia only took organs from those certified as “brain dead”.
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