Doctors from Mysuru and Bengaluru who have worked on transplanting organs will come together on a common platform on Sunday to enhance awareness on the matter. They will speak on cadaver organ donation, the transplantation process, the concept of brain death, and the legal aspects of donation.
The session, to be held at JSS Hospital from 3.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m., is being organised by CII–Young Indians and supported by leading hospitals in the city Mysuru. “We have made a few strides forward but the organ donation rate in India is poor (0.26 per million) when compared to Spain’s 36, United States’ 27, and Croatia’s 37 per million, respectively,” said N. Muthukumar, chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry, Mysuru.
He said lack of proper understanding of the concept was a major deterrent to organ donation in India. “For example, many of us think organ donation is against our religion. But in fact, many religions support organ and tissue donation as an act of charity or goodwill,” he said.
“One person dies of kidney failure every five minutes. There is a need of 2 lakh kidneys, 50,000 hearts and 50,000 livers for transplantation every year. There are more than 1.5 lakh brain deaths due to accidents annually. If 25 per cent of such cadavers are harvested, we could meet a major portion of the demand,” Mr. Muthukumar said in a release here.
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