Organ Transported on Commercial Flight For First Time in Kerala

In a first for the state, a human organ was transported on a commercial airline as part of a transplantation procedure, with a kidney being flown from Kannur to Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, K-SOTTO officials said. 

The kidney of Ayona Monson (17), who died after falling from a school building in Payyavoor in Kannur district, was transported to Thiruvananthapuram Medical College on



an IndiGo Airlines flight.

The kidney will be transplanted to a 27-year-old woman from Parasala. The Kerala State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (K-SOTTO), which oversees organ transplantation in the state, coordinated the transport. K-SOTTO executive director Dr Noble Gracious SS told reporters that one kidney was allocated to a patient in Thiruvananthapuram late on Wednesday night.