Organs of a doctor who died from a sudden illness were on Thursday donated by his relatives and they have saved the lives of six people.

Song Wei, 34, a trainee doctor at Shanghai Changhai Hospital in China, suffered an acute brainstem hemorrhage on May 31 and was pronounced dead on Wednesday.

His wife described him as a doctor who had healing the wounded and saving the dying as his life mission.

The local Red Cross Society said Song was the city's 195th organ donor and 57th this year.