Bengaluru, Dec 18: In a rare incident of dedication and sheer instance of humanity, a young woman in Bengaluru donated his spouse’s eyes and pledged his other replaceable organs for the society after her other half died a miserable death on road, suffering a heart attack.

Humanity was denied to her who cried for help standing on the mid road from the thousand passersby and motorists, to escort the ailing husband to hospital for emergency care or resuscitation. However, the bereaved woman with a breastfed baby of 1.5 year on her lap in turn, pledged the young husband’s body for the welfare of others.

Apart from donating the body organs, the visionary woman humbly semonised the Karnataka government to establish small coronary care units every 4–5 km by roads, equipped with ECGs, defibrillators, oxygen, and essential drugs, for emergency care.

According to her, these units wouldn’t need full-time doctors, trained paramedical staff, supported by protocols and tele-medicine, could deliver lifesaving care in the crucial first minutes at modest cost and enormous impact where heart attacks, brain strokes & hypoglycaemia-related collapses are on the rise.

According to reports, in the early hours in Bengaluru on Wednesday, 34-year-old Venkataraman, an automobile foreman woke with severe chest pain, prompting his wife Roopa to rush him on a scooter to a nearby private hospital.

They were allegedly turned away as no doctor was available. She took him to another private hospital where an ECG confirmed a heart attack, yet no emergency treatment was given and no ambulance arranged; instead, they were advised to go to Jayadeva Hospital.

With no alternative, Roopa again set off on the scooter. En route, Venkataraman suffered intense pain, the scooter lost balance, and both fell. Despite being injured herself, Roopa pleaded with passing motorists for help, but most ignored her as her husband lay gasping for breath. By the time he was taken to a hospital, he had lost consciousness and was declared brought dead.

Systemic failure and public indifference did not kill the humanity within Roopa, and she donated her husband’s eyes, later saying that timely medical care, or even basic help from passersby, could have saved his life.