Pregnant wife of Aussie tourist Kevin Malligan who was killed in Bali moped crash will give birth in the same hospital her husband DIED at – as she recalls the heartbreaking moment she first learned he had been hurt

A woman whose husband died after a moped accident in Bali is days away from giving birth at the same western Sydney hospital where his organs were donated.

Kevin Malligan, 24, suffered serious head and neck injuries after falling from a moped his mate was riding on December 29 while they were on holiday.

He was rushed to hospital before being flown back to Sydney on January 4, when he was taken off life support after doctors declared him brain dead.

Mr Malligan donated his heart, liver and both kidneys to Nepean Hospital and ultimately saved the lives of four people in an incredible final act.

His wife Leah – who is pregnant with the couple’s second child – will be rolled into the hospital operating room in a few days where she will give birth.

Mrs Malligan began her story when she heard the news that her husband was involved in the devastating crash.

Sydney man Kevin Malligan is pictured with his daughter Ivy, aged two. Mr Malligan died after a scooter accident in Bali

Mr Malligan had taken a break on the holiday island and hoped to see him in the New Year, but made a fatal mistake by not wearing a helmet when he got on the back of his friend’s bike after it was stolen.

“It was an eight-minute drive from the beach to the apartment, his friend said, ‘Just sit on my back,'” Ms Malligan told the newspaper. Sunday Telegraph.

But the moped hit something in the road and Mr Malligan hit his head in the subsequent fall and fell into an induced coma from which he would never emerge.

Ms Malligan was in her bed in Penrith, western Sydney, holding their two-year-old daughter Ivy when she received a call from the bike’s driver.

“My heart just dropped,” she said. ‘I just felt sick straight away.

“I have so much respect for him because that would have been the hardest decision of his life.”

The widow said she “feels very sorry for him because it was just a total accident and was no one’s fault,” and that she doesn’t blame him.

After being stabilized and operated on in an Indonesian hospital, Mr Malligan was medically evacuated to Australia on January 4 following a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $123,000 to cover his medical costs.

Although the family had hoped he would recover as he made movements and appeared to come out of his anesthesia, there was heartbreaking news in Australia.

Australian doctors found that Mr Malligan was brain dead and his injuries were irreversible. So the family made the disturbing decision to cut off his life support.

In a post on the financing site, his wife’s parents wrote that “this morning was our last hours with our son-in-law Kevin as we all said goodbye.”

“We had to go through a traumatic time that no woman, father, mother, father or family should have to experience,” they wrote.

Mr Malligan’s family, wife Leah and young daughter Ivy (pictured), were faced with the tragic decision of when to say their final goodbyes and cut off his life support.

Kevin Malligan (pictured) was declared brain dead and his family made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support

“Leah and his father made the wonderfully generous choice to donate his internal organs. We hope that all these bodies will help and save as many people as possible to live a healthier life for themselves.

“We are forever grateful for so much support over the past two weeks from family, friends, colleagues, the community and complete strangers.

‘Leah is overwhelmed by the support to bring Kevin home and have the opportunity to say goodbye to her beloved husband and father to Ivy and her future baby – due early February 2024. Love Jodie and Belinda French. RIP Kevin.”

Instead of rejoicing in the coming birth, the Malligan family was instead faced with painful death.

“This is the hardest time of our lives and we just can’t be grateful enough that we were able to get him home so everyone can see him before he leaves us,” Ms Malligan told Daily Mail Australia.

She said her husband was a “wonderful father, husband and friend” with a generous and loving nature who “will be missed by everyone.”

“He was always up for a joke and would do anything to put a smile on someone’s face.”

Above all, she said, Mr Malligan was a devoted father who enjoyed spending time with his daughter Ivy.

“There was nothing more precious than seeing how excited he was when he came home to give his Ivy girl a big hug,” Mrs Malligan said.

‘Then they played constantly until it was time for dinner and bedtime. He loved her so much and she doesn’t love anyone else as much as Kev.”

Kevin Malligan is pictured (right) kissing his beloved daughter Ivy, who he enjoyed spending time with

Kevin Malligan, a Sydney man who was clinically brain dead, died with his pregnant wife Leah and his family by his side. Kevin and Leah are pictured

Mrs Malligan, who had gone to Bali to be by her husband’s side after the accident, was also by his side when he died at Nepean Hospital – the same hospital where she will soon give birth to the child Kevin will never see.

His heart, full of love for his family, is now in someone else’s body. His liver and both kidneys saved the lives of three other people.

He will also live on through his second daughter, whose name he chose.

His wife has urged Australians to always be careful on holidays to Bali because “it literally only takes one second for everything to go wrong… Just make sure you have that helmet with you.”