Source: Times of India, Apr 2008
Long years of struggle convincing relatives of brain-dead patients to give their consent for organ donation appears to be paying off, with the number of organ donors going up in the last couple of years.
“The number of donors has gone up from one to three per month. We have recorded more than six multi-organ donations in the last couple of months. This signifies a great improvement in public awareness about organ donation,” said urologist and MOHAN Foundation managing trustee Dr Sunil Shroff, who has been campaigning for cadaver transplants.
At least one fourth of the multi-organ transplants in the country happen in Chennai.
Chennai police record at least 20 accidents a day. “Even if we assume that only 10% of them are brain dead, we will have two donors a day. From every patient we can harvest two kidneys, two lungs, a liver and a heart thus helping six patients,” says Dr Shroff…
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