In an incident of  a heart-warming gesture,despite the vibes of communal strife, a Muslim woman from Fatehpur district has come forward to donate her kidney to a Hindu woman from Pune (Maharashtra), who has been battling for life for over a year.

Donor named  Shamshad Begum (40) and the recipient Aarti (38) both have undergone all required medical examinations before the transplant to take place. Shamshad Begum said,”I was shocked by the pain being suffered by a person facing death. I underwent the blood group test which matched Aarti’s group,”.The donor, a native of Raribuzurg village in Bindki tehsil of Fatehpur district, has submitted all the documents required at the district health department, and is now waiting for the nod from the state government’s authorization committee for organ transplantation.

Aarti, who is a close friend of Shamshad Begum’s younger sibling Junaida Khatoon, stays in Pune (Maharashtra).”I am ready for organ transplant. The religion of a person should always be humanism. It is just a simple sacrifice for a fellow being,” Shamshad Begum said.