Hanoi, April 9 -- A 19-year-old British tourist who died during a trip to Vietnam has saved the lives of three Vietnamese patients with end-stage organ failure, in a deeply moving act of compassion.

The young woman is the first foreign national to donate organs in Vietnam. Her liver was transplanted to a 53-year-old man suffering from acute liver failure linked to hepatitis B and cirrhosis. Her two kidneys were given to a 35-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, both of whom had undergone years of dialysis while awaiting transplants.

In early April, the young woman was involved in an unexpected accident while travelling in Vietnam. Despite intensive treatment, she was declared brain dead on April 2 at Viet Duc University Hospitalin Hano...