World Organ Donation Day….
Maha Media 13
August 2019
August
13 is observed as World Organ Donation Day every year.
The purpose of the celebration is clear - to promote organ donation for those
who are in need of them. In India alone, lakhs of people die each year because
of their organ failure.
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The country needs 25 to 30 thousand livers transplantation every year, but reality is that only 1500 patients could avail such facilities. It is clear that there is a huge gap between organ donation and organ transplantation. There is need to motivate people to donate their organ so that lives of more and more needy people can be saved.
Organ donation is donating a donor’s organs like-- kidney, heart, lungs, eyes, liver, pancreas, cornea, small intestine, skin tissues, bone tissues, heart valves and veins after the donor dies, for the purpose of transplanting them into another person who is in need of an organ.
One organ and tissue donor can help transform the lives of more than 10 people. Tissues such as cornea, heart valves, skin, and bone can be donated in case of natural death but vital organs such as heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and pancreas can be donated only in the case of ‘brain death’.
Organs such as the heart, pancreas, liver, kidneys and lungs can be transplanted to those recipients whose organs are failing because it allows many recipients to return to a normal lifestyle.
People from all
walks of life should come forward to spread awareness among people about the
need of organ donation. There is need to remove hesitation of the people about
organ donation. The decision to donate organ is strictly based on medical
criteria and we must know that organ donation is irrespective of age, caste,
religion, community etc.
Even though the millions of people have registered to become organ donors, but still people lost their lives with vital organ failure. About 90 per cent of patients in India die while waiting for the organs due to the lack of donor
Therefore, the aim of this day is to motivate people to donate organs
after death, and to spread awareness about the importance of organ donation.
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