Cricketer Gautham Gambhir will visit schools in Tiruvallur near Chennai, to create awareness about organ donation among students.
Nineteen years ago, when the Transplantation of Human Organs Act was passed, activists rejoiced. They believed it would put an end to the commercial sale of organs, and encourage cadaveric organ donation in the country. In retrospect, neither has organ commerce been done away with nor has cadaveric donation become the norm. Has the TOHO Act then failed the country? On Organ Donation Day, the implementers of the Act have some tough questions to answer.
Calling organ donation the greatest form of charity, Islamic scholar and peace promoter Maulana Wahiduddin Khan stressed on the need for creating awareness on the issue. Speaking at a seminar organized by The Times of India on Wednesday, Khan said there is no teaching in Islam that restricts this kind of donation.
Organ donation is the harvesting of an individual's organs after he or she dies for the purpose of transplanting them into another person.
hennai-based Mohan Foundation has distributed nearly a million organ donor cards and facilitated 3,200 donations in the last 15 years. Dr Sunil Shroff, the NGO's managing trustee and head of urology at Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, tells Shobha John that just one consent for deceased donation gives a new lease to nine lives as eyes, kidneys, lungs, heart, lungs, liver and pancreas can be transplanted.
Lakhs of organ-failure patients across India need a transplant to stay alive. The only way to meet the galloping demand is donation after death. But for most of us, the idea is still alien and unbearable. It needn't be so
Six months after the government launched the Jeevandan scheme to boost organ transplant from brain dead donors, cadaver organ donation has taken a big leap in the state even as organ donation dropped to an all-time low in rest of the country.
Kalpana Tiwari became a role model of sorts for others with her organs being donated to the needy after she was pronounced 'brain dead' by doctors.
You know how a lot of wedding invites come bearing a No gifts please tag at the bottom? That seems to be changing these days. A lot of socially conscious youngsters would rather use the special occasion be it a wedding, a birthday or an anniversary, as an opportunity to do their bit for society, while also encouraging their family and friends to chip in.
Instead of simplifying the process for organ donation, the Centre seems to be imposing more bureaucratic hurdles and adding to the trauma of donors' family members.
