Life supporting machines for the Labour spokesman for health, Dr Karl Chircop, 43, who was declared clinically dead on Sunday, have been switched off after his family agreed to donate his organs.
Messages of condolences and tributes have been forthcoming as soon as it was known that Dr Chircop died.
Labour Leader Joseph Muscat, said that the MP was a worthy representative of the people and always felt dutiful to his electorate. Muscat praised Chircop’s family for having decided to donate his organs.
Dr Chircop, 43, died in a London hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage in early August which left him in a coma since.
Both the Nationalist Party and Alternattiva Demokratika issued statements saying that this was a loss for the family and the nation.
Dr Chircop is survived by his wife and four children.
