Panel discussion to be held with five to six leaders from different religions
With an aim to spread awareness about organ donation, 40 transplants will be carried out across India on November 23. This will be part of a week-long celebration to mark Indian Organ Donation week, which will also include a panel discussion with five to six leaders from different religions.
Indian Organ Donation Day will be celebrated this year on November 30. Several awards for best state, best hospital, best transplant co-ordinator will be given away on this day. Several organ donors as well as their families will also be felicitated.
Jagdish Prasad, Director General of Health Services, said, “Religious leaders must come forward. Their role is very vital because people still believe in re-birth which deters them from donating their organs.
The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) was set up in 2013 to create a national network of hospitals carrying out transplants and prepare a registry of organ donors and recipients. An important agenda before NOTTO is also to promote deceased organ donation, where most often the donor is a victim of a road accident.
With the aim to improve this rate, NOTTO conducted a workshop last month called National Deceased Donor Stimulation Training Programme for ICU experts so that they talk to the relatives of a patient brought to ICU and make them aware about deceased organ transplant.
NOTTO is also imparting training to ‘Transplant Co-ordinators’ and a total of 281 of them have been registered who will sensitise patients and their relatives about the importance of organ donation. It is also providing free ‘Retrieval Training’ first to medical colleges and later to district hospitals and private hospitals as well.
A 24*7 toll free helpline 1800114770 will address queries about organ donation.
EH News Bureau