Donation of one’s body after death by pledging it to a medical college when one is alive will go a long way in helping medical education.
For this, many bodies are needed. But presently, the number is less.
A few organisations have been promoting body donation, and some prominent personalities have joined the campaign by giving consent to donate their bodies to the medical colleges after their death.
A few years ago, the body of noted writer and leader of Abhyudayala Rachayitala Sangham, Avasarala Ramakrishna Rao, was handed over to the Department of Anatomy of AMC after his death. He was among the first group of persons to pledge his body in 2006. One of his friends in the group and a poetess Manchala Srilakshmi had her wish fulfilled when her body was donated to the AMC last week.
The Savitri Bai Phule Body Donors’ Association is promoting body donation.
Another organisation, Comrade Jyoti Basu Deha Daana Protsaha Samstha is also conducting a campaign, inspired by the late Marxist patriarch, whose body was donated to a Kolkata hospital some years ago.
Recently, 43 persons pledged their bodies to the AMC in response to the association’s campaign, and documents pledging their bodies were handed over to Principal of AMC S.V. Kumar.
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