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Organ transplantation is one of the phenomenal successes of the advanced medicine to treat patients with organ failure. Each year, thousands of people die while waiting for a transplant because of inadequate number of suitable donors. Nationally, out of 1.2 billion people, only 0.08 persons per million populations (PMP) appear as organ donors. This is an incredibly small and insignificant number compared to the statistics around the world. |
Currently organ donation can be termed as a "Crisis with a Cure".
- Organ donation is a process that begins with a need. The need is a PATIENT suffering from a failure of an essential organ
- Organ donation is the process of removing tissues or organs from a live, or recently dead, person to be transplanted in another patient. The former is the donor and the latter is the recipient
- An Act was passed in 1994 to lawfully regulate removal, storage, and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes only and to prevent commercial dealings of human organs
- Some organs can be donated by a living person. Almost all organs can be donated by someone dead but this has to reach the recipient within a few hours after the donor's death. In case of live donation, the donor should give her/his consent. In case of cadaver donation, relatives need to provide consent
- For organ recipients, a transplant often means a second chance of life
- Society plays a crucial role in transplant programme especially in case of cadaver transplants. There is an urgent need for increased public awareness regarding organ donation and greater effort must be taken to dispel public concerns regarding the same
- Organ donation can give a new twist to tragedy
- "Organs wastes are lives lost"
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