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JAMMU: Government Medical College (GMC) Jammu is in process to start deceased donation for kidney and also has been working to upgrade the facilities like heart, liver, pancreas etc for donation.
“We have expert Medical Professionals, but we are only lagging in donors,” Dr. Shashi Sudan Sharma, Principal, GMC Jammu said and requested public of J&K to come forward and pledge for organ donation.
addressing a press conference here on Wednesday , Principal GMC elaborated the importance of human organ/tissue transplantation and said that there has been a large deficit between demand and availability of organs and tissues in India including Jammu and Kashmir.
“The organ donation rate from deceased donors in our country is estimated to be 0.52 per million population.
In comparison, the organ donation rate in Spain, the highest in the world, is 49.6 per million population,” she said.
She further told media that in India the deceased organ donation rate in South is comparatively higher than North.
She apprised media fraternity that for deceased donations, a team of doctors from the recipient hospital will come in this institution and retrieve the organs from the brain dead donor and will carry the organs to their hospital through a green corridor for hassle free transport of human organs from this hospital in the shortest minimum time because each organ has a specific timeframe in which it must be transplanted after it has been retrieved from the brain dead donors like Kidneys: 24 – 36 hours, Heart: 4 – 6 hours, Lungs: 4 – 8 hours, Liver: 8 – 12 hours, Pancreas: 12 – 18 hours and Intestine: 8 – 16 hours.
“It is the need of the hour as many people are struggling with end stage diseases and they need organs like kidney, liver, heart, lungs etc. to survive,” she said adding that not everyone can get a living donor and they also have to get on the waiting list for transplantation and to reduce this demand and supply gap of human organs, it is very important to have deceased donors in our country and this can be possible only when a person can get organs from deceased donors.
Dr Elias Sharma, HoD Urology & Renal Transplant and Nodal Officer SOTTO J&K, Ashwini Khajuria, Administrator Dr. Manoj Chalotra, Medical Superintendent, Superspeciality Hospital, Dr. Kailash Thakur, Assistant Professor Surgery and Dr. Raju Bhandari, Consultant Nephrologist, GMC Jammu were also present in the press conference.