The city registered its first bone donation on August 25 when the family members of a 49-year-old deceased ex-serviceman donated his bones, along with corneas, at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital. A team of orthopaedic surgeons retrieved nine pieces of bones, including seven rib bones and two ileum bones, from his pelvic region.
The first bone donation in Pune took place at the state run Sassoon General Hospital on August 25 when 49-year-old ex-serviceman donated his bones and corneas to the hospital. Aarti Gokhale, chief coordinator, at the Zonal Transplant Coordination committee (ZTCC) said the donor, Vijay Maruti Kadam, who had served in the army for 17 years, passed away under tragic circumstances due to death by hanging.
A rising graph prominently put up on the website of the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) effectively captures India’s heartening organ donation story: If the country registered 900 donations of liver, kidney and heart in 2009, the total rose to 3,038 in 2018.
State capital Bhopal is yet to come to terms with the organ donation, reflects official figures. As per National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) in past three years 199 donations have taken place in Madhya Pradesh and of these only 11 have taken place in Bhopal and remaining 188
Adesh Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Bathinda, recently got the approval from the state government to start liver transplantation.
Lakhs of lives could be saved in the country if misconceptions about organ donation are removed. A donated body could save up to eight lives and therefore there is a need to create awareness about organ donation, said Sarita Chaurasiya, president of Adarsh Chaurasia Ladies Club, on Saturday.
Months after the monsoon hit the small town of Saket Nagar in Kanpur last year, Sangeeta Kashyap*, 33, packed her bags for Delhi where she had been promised a good job. She was excited; she had never stepped out of Kanpur before. “My husband’s friend had promised us 40 lakh. We dreamt of a ‘pakka’ house, a good education for our children, and even some savings to help us through illnesses.
In life, women show a large heart in donating organs to their blood relations, while in death, men are major donors of life giving organs, studies have indicated.
On Monday, as the state health minister boasted about how Tamil Nadu has secured awards for organ donation consecutively for four year, the statistics published by Transtan, a body that coordinates cadaver organ donations, shows the number is dipping.
It is no longer just doctors and NGOs, but now even corporate houses have begun spreading the altruistic message of organ donation. The employee calendar in many companies now boasts of awareness talks, special drives to sign donor pledges or awareness walks and seminars.
