When the 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who was brutally assaulted in a Delhi bus was sent to a Singapore speciality hospital last week for a likely organ transplant, many in India asked why. She died soon after she was sent abroad but the questions remain.
Srinidhi (name changed), a housewife, donated a part of her liver to her husband a few years ago. Even though she has no complications and is perfectly healthy, she was surprised to find that insurance companies rejected her application for comprehensive health cover.
Himanshu Singh’s gangrenous small intestine didn’t allow him to eat anything normally, which led to him go from weighing 74kg to 37kg in three years. He could not digest his food normally, his body was not able to absorb nutrients and he could have remained permanently dependent on intravenous related stories India’s 1st successful intestine transplant done at Medanta nutrition.
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.
