Organ transplant coordinator helps others get a new lease of life

TNP PHOTO: Kelvin Chng

A huge responsibility rests on the slender shoulders of transplant coordinator Koh Xiu Xian (above).

The 25-year-old has to go around hospitals trying to get permission to procure organs from those declared brain-dead from their loved ones.

“It isn’t easy but someone has to do it,” she says.

And her positive experiences with some families keeps her going.

“Once I told (a family) that his legacy will live on in the bodies of others - his heart still beating, his eyes continue to look at the beautiful sights - they asked to sign pledge cards too,” she says.