Govt mulls
over new rules to facilitate organ donation
Pledging his organs for
donation, Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Sunday claimed his ministry would
soon come out with new rules, regulations and protocols to facilitate cadaver
donation.
Though India documents about 1.5 lakh brain dead patients every year, only a handful of patient families come forward to donate organs, showcasing a lukewarm response to the government’s organ donation campaign.
Though India documents about 1.5 lakh brain dead patients every year, only a handful of patient families come forward to donate organs, showcasing a lukewarm response to the government’s organ donation campaign.
“Organs are national resources and not even one should be wasted. Donating organs is a gift and is an altruistic, egalitarian and a moral act. We can turn the end of a life into a new beginning by donating our organs,” Nadda said.
Health ministry officers, doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff members of all central government hospitals in Delhi, too, pledged to donate their organs.
“Even though we have a good (organ transplant) law, very few are able to afford the cost of an organ transplant in the absence of organs and facilities. An average Indian remains deprived,” said Vivekanand Jha from The George Institute for Global Health, India.
A large number of potentially transplantable organs could not be utilised due to lack of awareness on the part of ICU physicians.
A recent research has shown that in a big tertiary care centre, less than 10% of brain stem dead patients could be converted to actual donors. It suggests a huge untapped potential for cadaver transplant.
29.11.2016
If
the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal
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