Through this initiative, key hospitals in Navi Mumbai have been identified with intensive care facilities who can manage brain stem death patients
Zonal Transplant Coordination Center (ZTCC) and Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai recently organised a scientific session to create awareness and educate the medical fraternity in Navi Mumbai on the management of brain stem death and organ donation. The session was held in Navi Mumbai and was attended by Prof SK Mathur, General Secretary and VP, ZTCC, and Dr Pravin Shingare, Director, Medical Education,Government of Maharashtra amongst others.
Through this initiative, key hospitals in Navi Mumbai have been identified with intensive care facilities who can manage brain stem death patients and also potentially be recognised in futureas a Non-Transplant Organ Retrieval Centers (NTORC) by ZTCC.
It is essential to understand that in India it is mainly the living donors who are donating organs. There is a need to promote deceased organ donation and it is important to educate the medical fraternity on brain stem death, organ donation, clinical protocols and the legal framework. Through this joint initiative, we identified key hospitals in Navi Mumbai and are creating a platform wherein future these hospitals could be potentially recognised as Non Transplant Organ Retrieval centres (NTORC) by ZTCC. The platform gives rise to increased organ donation rates, largely benefiting the patients with end stage organ failures, says Prof Darius F Mirza, Head, Liver Transplantation, Apollo Hospitals.
“I am happy to be a part of this educative and awareness initiative on organ donation. These forums are a great platform to share knowledge and make the medical fraternity more aware of the benefits of organ donation. As we move forward, ZTCC will organise more such scientific sessions and we will work towards educating more on deceased donor donations which is lacking at this point in our country,” says Mathur.
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