Creating awareness of organ donation after demise can save many lives

By A Staff Reporter

IMPHAL | Dec 22

With the motive of creating broad ideas on the perspective of organ donation and transplantation Continuing Medical Education (CME) on ‘Deceased Organ Donation’ was held at the auditorium of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical Institute of Sciences (JNIMS) today.

The programme was organised in collaboration with MOHAN Foundation, International Society of Nephrology, The Transplantation Society and Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO) Guwahati. It is aimed to create awareness about the importance of organ donation in the state.

Speaking as the chief guest in today’s function, director of JNIMS Prof. Th. Bhimo Singh said that organ donation is one of the noblest acts of saving the life of someone by a donor who is alive or death and that this noblest deed is regulated by transplantation of human organs act 1994.

“The objective of regulating removal, storage and transplantation of human organs for the therapeutic purpose and for prevention of commercial dealings in human organs this act has been implemented,” he illuminated.

He pointed out that some of the Indian states that are very much effective in cadaver transplantation after the implementation of the mentioned act are Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Puducherry, Delhi-NCR and Chandigarh.

Acknowledging Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation for conducting CME at JNIMS, he said that conducting such type of programme would help in creating awareness about the importance of organ donation in the state like Manipur where there is no idea of deceased organ donation. Unless the awareness programme is organised widely there is no hope of including Manipur among the efficient states of cadaver transplantation.

“I really thank MOHAN Foundation for choosing JNIMS as the venue of conducting this productive CME”, he observed.

Pointing out the main source of organ donor under the said programme, he continued that “People who die in road accident due to brain death are the most potential organ donors as compared to other sources. However, it is not an easy task to convince the family of dead person. Hence a counseling team is required to convince a family of deceased person.”

He further suggested, to make JNIMS as one of the successful institution of deceased organ transplantation, sensitization programme on organ donation and transplantation is required to be conducted frequently at the premises of JNIMS so that all the employees are well informed.

President of Indian Medical Association (IMA) Manipur branch and Head of Department of Microbiology RIMS, Prof. Kh. Sulochana Devi, who attended as the function president said Manipur is no exception in the field of medical science for it is pioneer in certain areas.

She expressed her confident that Manipur would emerge as one of the efficient deceased organ donation state.

Prof. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee of MOHAN Foundation, Urologist Prof. S. Rajendra Singh and Urologist JNIMS Dr. K. Sholay, also attended in the awareness programme.