A 22-year-old woman, who was declared brain-dead at a private hospital in the city, has given a new lease of life to two people after her husband and parents consented to donate her organs to the needy.

According to the sources in the Ruby Hall Clinic hospital, the young woman was declared brain-dead after she sustained a head injury due to a fall on August 16.Her husband agreed to donate her organs, following which one of her lungs was harvested and flown from Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune to Gleneagles Global Hospital in Chennai on Thursday and transplanted successfully into a patient, who was suffering from final stage of lung disease.On the initiative of Arti Gokhale, who is the coordinator of Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee at Pune, the deceased's husband and parents agreed to donate her lung to the needy and subsequently her lungs, heart, kidneys and liver were harvested, said Dr Surekha Joshi of Ruby Hall Clinic.

She said one of her lungs was harvested at around 0130 hrs on Thursday and rushed to the Pune airport by road.A flight carrying the organ and the transplant team landed at the Chennai airport at around 0430 hrs.The lung was then transported to the hospital in Perumbakkam suburb of Chennai in 15 minutes and successfully transplanted into the patient.Meanwhile, the woman's heart was on Thursday transported by road to Fortis Hospital at Mulund in Mumbai, through a green corridor, covering the distance of 143 km in just 1.49 hours.The heart was then transplanted into a 24-year-old college student from suburban Ghatkopar, who was suffering from a heart ailment and had been on the wait-list since May this year.