Organ Donation - The Gift That Lives On Potential of the India Cadaver donation Program Spain has the highest number of organ donation rate from brain dead patients in the world at 33 per million population ( Spain has a population of 40 million and has on an average 1340 Brain donors every year 33x 40 =1340). This has been possible due to the co-ordination network between 139 hospitals. In India our current organ donation rate is 0.05 per million ( about 50 Cadaver donors per year ). However if we can improve it even to 1 per million donation - we could take care of some of the organ shortages in India and this is how the arithmetics would work: • At 1 per million donation rate we would have 1100 organ donors -or 2200 kidneys, 1000 hearts, 1100 Livers, 1100 pancreas and 2200 Eyes. This should take care of almost all current demands for organs in India. • At 2 per million donation rate there would be 2200 organ donors and the above figures would doubl There would be no necessity to undertake living kidney donations. • If we did 3 per million , we could take care of all SAARC countries demand for organs. • At 5 per million we would have 10,000 kidneys, 5000 hearts and 5000 livers and we could start looking at the problem of organ shortage in rest of Asia and other parts of the world. The cadaver programme needs to be given a priority and efforts should be made to encourage hospitals and state governments to promote the programme. We in India at present may not be able to compare our economic progress with some of the western counter parts, but countries in second league like Poland and Hungary are today able to do an Organ donation rate of 6 per million. Even the conservative society of Turkey does 1.5 per million. Happy organ donation day
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 02:55:26 +0000
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