ORGAN DONATION

'THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG IS TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT ORGAN DONATION'

AS PER RECENT DATA / STATISTICS THAT WE CAN SEE ON FEW GOVT / NGO WEBSITES ABOUT ORGAN DONATION,
INDIA IS WAY TOO BEHIND THEN MANY OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, SPECIALLY IN RESPECT TO THE POPULATION WE HAVE & IN RESPECT TO NUMBER OF PATIENTS REQUIRING ORGAN DONATION & THE DEATHS OCCURRING PER YEAR DUE TO LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ORGANS.

AT LARGE TWO CAUSES ARE IDENTIFIED FOR THE SAME
1. LACK OF AWARENESS AND EDUCATION FOR THE SAME IN GENERAL POPULATION AS WELL AS MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS.
2. MISCONCEPTIONS AND FAMILY BELIEFS / MISBELIEFS IN OUR SOCIETY DUE TO ONE REASON OR OTHER FOR EXAMPLE ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS.

FEW DATA THAT I HAVE SEEN ON SUCH WEBSITES ARE AS BELOW.
COUNTRIES LIKE SINGAPORE AND SPAIN ARE AT TOP (20 TO 30 PER MILLION OF POPULATION) IN ORGAN DONATION BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEVELOPED CONCEPT OF 'PRESUMED CONSENT' WHERE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS TAKE DECISION ABOUT BRAIN DEATH AND ORGAN DONATION WITH GOVT AUTHORITY IN LOOP MORE THEN FAMILIES OF THE PATIENTS. WHEREAS INDIA IS WAY TOO BEHIND IN THESE, FAMILY CONSENT BEING ONE OF THE HURDLES. (0.08 PER MILLION OF POPULATION)
EVEN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES LIKE US / UK ARE HAVING LOWER RATES THEN SINGAPORE AND SPAIN LIKE COUNTRIES BECAUSE OF THIS CONCEPT.

IN INDIA, PAUNDICHERRY (10.4) AND CHANDIGARH (5.7) ARE ALONG WITH FEW SOUTH INDIAN STATES ARE AT HIGHER RATES THEN OTHER STATES, UP (0.04) BEING AT LAST ON THIS LIST. ONLY 301 HOSPITALS AT PRESENT ARE ALLOWED TO DO ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN INDIA. EVERY YEAR APPROX 50,000 PEOPLE DIE DUE TO LACK OF AVAILABILITY OF ORGANS WHEREAS, AS PER ONE STUDY CONDUCTED BY SOME NGO, INDIA HAS POTENTIAL TO GET THAT FIGURE UPTO 67 PM OF POPULATION & IN LAST TWO YEARS INDIA HAS HIGHEST NUMBER OF ONLINE PLEDGE COMING FOR ORGAN DONATION BUT DUE TO ONE REASON OR OTHER, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO CONVERT IT TO FACTS FROM THE WORDS. 

DONATION OF ORGANS LIKE KIDNEY, LIVER, EYES AND ALSO MOST COMMONLY TRANSFUSED TISSUE OF HUMAN BODY (BLOOD, AVAILABILITY OF WHICH IS A BIG ISSUE ON DAILY BASIS, ALTHOUGH ITS NOT AN ORGAN) INDIA IS WAY TO BEHIND, IN PROPORTION TO MORBIDITY (DISEASE) AND MORTALITY (DEATH) ATTACHED TO IT DUE TO 'NON-AVAILABILITY' & ALSO IN RESPECT TO POTENTIAL THESE COUNTRY AND YOUTH POSSESS.

WORKING FOR ALMOST 10 YEARS IN ICU NOW, I WAS ALSO NOT MUCH AWARE AND WAS NOT MUCH SERIOUS ABOUT THIS ISSUE, UNTIL LAST WEEK, WHERE UNDER GUIDANCE OF OUR INTENSIVIST, DR JASMIN RACHHADIA, WE DID ORGAN RETRIEVAL SUCCESSFULLY FROM ONE BRAIN DEAD PATIENT, AT OUR SHUKAN HOSPITAL ICU, KARELIBAUG, BARODA, WITH THE HELP OF IKDRC-AHMEDABAD, SO, I REQUEST EVERYONE READING THIS, WHO SO EVER THEY MAY BE, TO SPREAD THIS MESSAGE IN GOOD FAITH - TO SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT ORGAN DONATION AND ALSO BLOOD DONATION (WHICH IS CALLED AS MOST EASIER WAY TO HELP HUMANITY) AND TO PROMOTE MAXIMUM NUMBERS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IN OUR COUNTRY. YOU CAN CHECK NUMBERS OF WAITING LISTS OF THESE ON DIFFERENT WEBSITES.

(NOTE: THESE ARE CADAVER DONATION DATA TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT WEBSITES, MAY NOT BE ACCURATE, BUT APPROXIMATELY THEY SHOW US HOW MUCH CRUCIAL THIS THING IS)