Overview
- Doctors at a Hyderabad hospital have declared businesswoman Deepti Reddy brain dead and her family has given consent for organ donation.
- Virat Foundation has stepped in to assist the family with logistics and paperwork while hospital teams work with Jeevandan, the state transplant coordination program.
- Deepti had earlier signaled her intent to donate organs, and her family said they acted to honor that pledge.
- Deepti is known publicly as the wife of film director Pradeep Madugula and as founder of the We Aim Foundation, which gives the case wider public interest.
- Officials and Virat Foundation leaders praised the decision and used the moment to urge greater public awareness of organ donation while no details have yet been released about specific organs recovered or transplant matches.