ReLive your Life via Organ Donation

NP NEWS NETWORK

Richa Pandya

Pune

Usually it is for public gathering or function people in society gathered together to celebrate an event but rarely it is been witnessed that a society comes together for a noble and social cause that is for donating their organs.

Pune based reputed township on every Sunday gathers together for various social issues in society and volunteer themselves to be a part of it. It is about Nanded City where people on every Sunday organise social causes like Blood donation camps, organ donation camps and others.

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Organ donation in India is not yet a much discussed topic. If anyone is sick or injured and admitted to a hospital, the first priority for emergency physicians and nurses is to save the patient’s life, regardless of whether or not one has registered to be an organ donor.

One organ donor can save up to eight lives. One eye and tissue donor can save or improve the lives of up to 50 people. This means an organ, eye and tissue donor can potentially impact the lives of 58 people!

Organs that can be donated for transplantation include kidneys, heart, lungs, liver, small bowel and pancreas. Tissues that can be donated include eyes, heart valves, bone, skin, veins and tendons.

Who Can Donate?

 Virtually anyone can become a donor. Person’s medical condition at the time of death will determine what organs and tissues can be donated for transplant or scientific research.

A person who is brain dead can donate all the organs of his body but Coma patient’s organs are not allowed to be donated as they still have hopes to live. Alive person can donate his one of the kidneys. Parts of other organs including the lung, liver and pancreas are now being transplanted from living donors. Naturally dead person can donate their eyes and skin.

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The Pune based ReBirth organization is working along with Nanded City’s Senior Citizen Council Committee on Organ Donation campaign. This committee is particularly working on the awareness campaign about organ donation, they make the citizens aware about the importance of donating the organs, they also try to change the thoughts of people spreading awareness against the rumors and beliefs people carry about organ donation.

Dr Ashish Patil, MD- General Medicine at Sahyadri Hospital in Pune said, “People fear when they hear the word organ donation but they don’t know the next person in-need can be he. Today in India, 0.08% people out of 1 lakh are donating their organs which is very less compared to foreign countries like US & UK.”

The committee working along with Pune based ReBirth Foundation to bring awareness in society about organ donation and the noble cause hidden behind this motive has the resolution to get minimum 25000 people convinced to donate their organs.

Not only this, they do not want to limit their campaign to Nanded city but aim to reach all the citizens of city.