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.
Heads of various religions on Tuesday came together on a common platform to promote organ donation and dispel myths and misconceptions surrounding it.
“I lost my 13-year-old son Aman after a brief illness. He was declared brain dead with no chance of survival,” says Mamta Jain who, despite being distraught about losing her child, took the brave decision to donate his organs.
Priyanka Gandhi and Brinda Karat were among 500-odd people from different walks of life who on Wednesday pledged to donate their organs.
Supported by the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust, the Mohan Foundation is doing sterling work to save lives by facilitating organ donations and training transplant coordinators.
There would be no better person than a mother, who had donated the organs of her brain dead 22-year-old son, to urge the public to pledge their organs.
More than the grief of losing their beloved, the 11 families, who were honoured for donating organs of their deceased ones to needy patients, found solace in the fact that their sacrifice had given a fresh lease of life to others.
OVER 70 percent of people awaiting organ transplants die in hospitals before they can
On a dark night with little or no street lighting in some localities in and around Chennai, is it safe to ride a two-wheeler? What are the chances that you might hit a speed breaker that is not visible, and be thrown off the vehicle?
Metaphorically ‘sharing the vision’ might be an inclusive perception. For beneficiaries of corneal transplantation it is a gesture by the donor.
