ORGAN DONATION – A GIFT OF LIFE!!!
Medical Science is expanding its horizons by leaps and bounds and edging towards newer successes by unveiling God’s miraculous mystery – Human being & primarily human body.
In case any of the organs of the human body fails of function, medical science can extend its functioning for some time, but when an end stage failure is reached, just like a machine whose parts are changed, the failed organ needs to be replaced.
There are millions of needy patients all over the World who suffer from various end stage organ failures and whose lives can be saved only by the timely replacement of the failed organ.
Human to human (allogeneic) transplantation of cell tissue and organs has become the best treatment and often the only for a wide range of fatal diseases. Transplantation has been increasing over the previous decades. However, the human origin of the therapeutic material entails the potential for safety and ethical violations.
One of the miraculous discoveries of medical science has brought a ray of hope in the lives of these needy patients by transplanting these functioning organs from the bodies of brain dead patients to these patients. This is cadaver organ transplantation.
Whenever there is an injury to the brain stem or an intracranial haemorrhage the patient goes into coma. The brain is the utmost important organ of the body and an irreversible damage to the same leads to the death of the living being but other internal organs remain functional for some time aided by artificial respiration and various drugs. During this time even though the patient is dead, these organs which are kept viable artificially, can be transplanted to various needy patients and a gift of life can be given to them.
One brain dead patient can donate
• both Kidneys,
• Heart,
• Liver,
• Pancreas,
• Lungs,
• Skin
• & both corneas
• to various needy patients
In India the awareness on organ donation is very less but the need of organ is very much higher.Donating organs is a great deed as donating life to other. It is estimated that in India every year over 100,000 people are diagnosed to have kidney failure and would be needing a transplantation. Due to non-availability of organs only about 2,500 kidney transplants are done. The same thing happens for eye and other organ donations as well.
When a person in your family, relative, friends expire.. all you need to do is call the donor bank, and they come to your place, take 5 minutes time, issue a certificate, and two people get eyesight... how difficult is that???
Please keep the telephone number of your city handy.
India Contact Information for Organ Donations
Call Toll Free number across India for any information on organ donation or to donate organ at: 1919
Imp numbers for Delhi & Mumbai (using MTNL)
1. Information Service on Eye Bank is 1919
2. Centralized Accident & Trauma Service 1099
3. Information Service on Blood Bank is 1910
4. Dial a Doctor 1911
