A global paucity of organ supply has pushed international organ trade up by a few notches in the recent times. A rising health policy issue around the globe, poor and vulnerable groups of people today are susceptible to illegal organ trafficking. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 5-10 per cent of the 1,00,000 organs transplanted each year globally have been purchased illegally from poor people desperate for cash.
Over the last five days in Tamil Nadu, seven large-hearted people and their families have made the ultimate sacrifice – organ donation, so that many others can live on. Six donors shared with their recipients a total of 11 kidneys, five livers, a lung, and eight corneas.
This could be devastating news for hundreds of people waiting for a cadaver organ for transplant: several kidneys, lungs, livers and hearts that could have saved organ failure patients weren't retrieved from brain dead patients at the Government General Hospital since October 2012.
Indian Ocean, one of the country’s leading rock bands and considered one of the pioneers of the fusion genre, connected through its music to a few hundred appreciative fans Sunday evening, but this time it was for a cause — championing the importance of organ donation in a country where thousands die because there are not enough organs available for harvesting and transplantation.
Seven people, some of them suffering from life-threatening conditions, got a new lease of life when the family of a businessman from Maharajgunj, who passed away this week, agreed to donate his organs.
When the 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who was brutally assaulted in a Delhi bus was sent to a Singapore speciality hospital last week for a likely organ transplant, many in India asked why. She died soon after she was sent abroad but the questions remain.
Srinidhi (name changed), a housewife, donated a part of her liver to her husband a few years ago. Even though she has no complications and is perfectly healthy, she was surprised to find that insurance companies rejected her application for comprehensive health cover.
Himanshu Singh’s gangrenous small intestine didn’t allow him to eat anything normally, which led to him go from weighing 74kg to 37kg in three years. He could not digest his food normally, his body was not able to absorb nutrients and he could have remained permanently dependent on intravenous related stories India’s 1st successful intestine transplant done at Medanta nutrition.
The State’s Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation Programme has got yet another fillip now that the programme has been put completely in the public domain, to ensure total transparency and accountability in the allocation of organs harvested from deceased or brain-dead donors.
