March 27 is observed as the Cadaver Donation Day in Maharashtra State with the aim of increasing awareness amongst the people so that more and more people come forward to donate their organs after death. Case studies have shown that the cadaver transplants work almost as well as donations from live donors. Law permitting cadaver donations came into being 14 years ago. The Law permits three types of organ donations: related living, unrelated living and cadaveric donations. As per the Transplant Protocol, everyone can donate eyes, skin and bones within 6 hours of death. However, only persons who are brain-dead can donate solid organs such as kidneys, liver and heart.
The numbers have been increasing slowly from single digit to double digits. The organ donations, in general, are just a fraction of what is needed for the lakhs of patients with kidney or liver diseases and undergoing costly treatments. Due to the acute shortage, illegal kidney bazaars are thriving in the country. In India, 15,000 people require a liver transplant every year and only 150 get lucky in getting a donor. Overall, India requires 22,000 donors annually. From where, this number of donations will come?
The government is considering “presumed consent” from serious /brain-dead patients in hospitals. Of course, this presumed consent goes against the premise of voluntary donation. It is advised that each hospital can have a transplant coordinator to identify and counsel the family of potential donors. Typically, there is a Zonal Transplantation Coordination Centre (ZTCC), a quasi-government organization coordinating diseased donor transplants in Mumbai, located at Sion Hospital.
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It is interesting to note that I can count people on my finger tips, who have heard about Maharashtra cadaver donors day and you are one of them. I am unable to view your profile.
For last six months I have been working in the area of organ donation awareness and working on pan-India level from chennai, mumbai, delhi and other cities, a lot yet has to be done.
Dr. Vatsala Trivedi did the first cadaver transplant in maharashtra on 27 march 1998 (or 1997, can't remember the year) but have heard from her how she had to stay wake for more than 48 hrs, it was truld a massive feat for her.
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