Organ donor at age of two

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Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani is one of a special breed. He is among 201 children under 10 years of age who pledged to be organ donors over the last nine years.
He was two, and his sisters nine and eight, when they were signed up with the National Transplant Resource Centre three years ago.
Just over 15,000 of those aged 11 to 20 have also registered with the centre since 1997.
The two age groups together make up about 17 per cent of the 88,001 who have pledged organs, according to the centre’s statistics.
Many of these young Malaysians were registered by parents who also made pledges at the same time, said centre co-ordinator Dr Lela Yasmin Mansor.
That is what happened in 2002, when Nazim’s father Dr Amir Farid Isahak, 50, helped organise an organ donation campaign.
Not only did the consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist pledge his three children’s organs, he signed up himself and persuaded his wife Sharin Hood, 36, to do so too.
Their elder daughter Fatimah Az-Zahraa was nine, and younger daughter Aisyah Ar-Reda eight at the time.
Dr Lela said Chinese topped the list of those who made pledges, with 57,369 or 65 per cent of all organ donors. Indians were next with 19,501, at 22 per cent, then Malays with 8,471, which is under 10 per cent.
Just over half the pledges were made by women.