PESHAWAR: Medical Transplant Regulatory Authority will hold a ceremony to pay tributes to the family of Jawad Khan for donating organs to five people.

The adviser to chief minister on health, Ihtisham Ali, told Dawn that the ceremony was meant to honour the family. “The government will honour the family of Jawad Khan for donating the organs and saving lives,” he said.

He added that government would extend financial help to organ donors to encourage donors and put brakes on illegal trade of organs. He said that government wanted people to start donating organs. “The government has already providing free organ donation services to people on Sehat Card Plus for which we need people to donate their organs as most people miss organ transplants because they don’t find donors,” he added.

Doctors at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) Peshawar retrieved two organs as many kidneys and liver from Jawad Khan on June 6 and were transplanted to five persons, resulting in restoration of eyesight of two persons and saving lives of two others by transplanting his kidneys and liver.

The boy, a student of 9th grade had met an accident and gone into coma where doctors declared him brain dead at the intensive care unit of HMC. The boy, a resident of Rustam village in Mardan stood no chance of survival and was on ventilator.

Upon persuasion of Medical Transplant Regulatory Authority (MTRA) under its administrator Prof Asif Malik and HMC medical director Prof Shehzad Akbar Khan, his father Noor Dad Khan agreed to donate his son’s organs and made history by becoming the first-ever case of deceased organ donation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In order to pay tributes to the deceased boy, whose family selflessly donated organs to save lives, Institute of Kidney Diseases HMC in collaboration with MTRA will organse a ceremony on June 17.

Published in Dawn, June 13th, 2025