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Doctors and nurses form guard of honor for brain dead infant girl who donated organs to three other children

Alondra Torres Arias was only a year and seven months old when she died of pneumonia after which her family decided her kidneys and liver should be donated to other children
UPDATED JAN 22, 2019

A heartbreaking moment when doctors of a hospital formed a guard of honor for an infant girl's journey into the operating theater one final time for her organs to be donated after she suffered from a brain death was captured on camera and uploaded on social media.

Alondra Torres Arias was only a year and seven months old when she died of pneumonia. The baby's family, from Monterrey, Mexico, decided that her kidneys and liver should be donated to other children.

The doctors and nurses who cared for the infant when she was in the hospital said their goodbyes to her in an emotional tribute. The video of the moment showed them standing side by side on either side of the corridor, quietly waiting for Alondra's hospital bed to go by, reported the Daily Mail.

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