Organ donation – Dadhichi is changing the body, why is Gujarat lagging

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Dadhichi changing body

Dilip Patel 23 June 2022
Near Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram is the temple of Rishi Dadhichi, where Dadhichi donated his body to the Pandavas. The number of organ donors has increased in Gujarat. In 2012, Gujarat was ranked third in the country, today it is at the sixth position. Now it is improving.

Organ donation in Gujarat has increased due to the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) at Ahmedabad Civil Campus. As a result of round the clock human commitment of the SOTTO team working at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, an average of 4 persons are being revived daily today. Works 24 hours a day for organ retrieval and organ transplantation. One person’s decision to donate organs after death can save up to 8 lives.
If the hospital has all the facilities, organ donation by one person can help 50 needy people. According to an estimate, about 5 lakh people die every year in India due to lack of organ donation. Only 0.26 percent of the 10 lakh people in India donate organs. If the same amount is to be considered in Gujarat. If organs were found, 30,000 people could be saved from dying.

Tamil Nadu has been adjudged the best in the country in terms of organ donation for the sixth year in a row. Of the 1,392 donors, 8,245 organs have been amputated. Despite Gujarat’s Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Gujarat is backward in the country in terms of organ donation.

In India, 2 lakh people die of liver disease and 2 lakh people die from heart disease. It is estimated that 8% of them are from Gujarat.
5 thousand people are waiting for organ donation every moment but only 1 lucky person gets an organ. If 500 people donate organs every day, 5,000 people can be saved every day in India.

In the last 16 months, 234 organs of 74 persons have been donated in Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, out of which 212 persons have got resuscitation. One organ donation is done every day at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad city from 15th to 18th June.

Sanjay Kumar Gohil of Surendranagar donated 71 to 74 organs in the last four days at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. Both heart, kidney and liver. In the 74th organ donation, 25-year-old Rahul Rajbhar of Ahmedabad has received liver donation.

The special thing in the case of all the four patients was that after being brain dead, the family members agreed to donate organs within a few hours of counselling. The relatives of all these organ donors were aware of the importance of organ donation.

While Ahmedabad’s private K.D. When Dallu Vinayagam was brain dead in the hospital, his family members voluntarily donated organs. Donations of kidney, liver and both corneas have been received.

The day of Dussehra in Gujarat in 2021 was historic. 50 organ donation of 14 people saved 38 lives; 32 eyesight came.

Organ donation, which was earlier limited to government hospitals in Surat and Ahmedabad, has now become possible in private hospitals in the state.

In the field of organ donation Dr. Dr. Rakesh Joshi, Superintendent of Civil Hospital and his team as well as Convener of SOTTO (State Organ Tissue and Transplant Organisation). As a result of the efforts of Pranjal Modi and his team for transplant, patients who are leading a painful life due to deformity or disability are getting resuscitated.

1301 kms on 14th June 2022. The body of 25-year-old Laxman Mageta from distant Nepal was donated to the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital. This was the first case in Gujarat where a patient from another country had donated organs.

This was the first case of organ donation at three places in a single day at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, Vadodara and Junagadh on 26 May 2022.

In Gujarat, 943 deceased donor kidney transplants took place in 13 years. Organs of 39 people were donated to Ahmedabad Kidney Hospital in 2014, 71 in 2015 and 103 in 2016.

In India 1.50 lakh people are in need of kidney. But only 3 thousand are found in it. The need of liver in India is 25 thousand. Plus get only 800.

Heart and lungs can be donated by a 40 year old patient. Other organs can occur at any age.

Shows low awareness about organ donation in Gujarat. Gujarat was once at the forefront of organ donation. There is a 1% chance of survival out of 100 brain dead people.

From 2013 to 2017, 580 organs were donated from Gujarat. who were few. Tamil Nadu was at the forefront in terms of 2291 organ donation.

The first liver transplant was performed on 28 May 2008 at the Kidney Institute. The Institute for Kidney Diseases and Research Center has completed 6500 organ transplants in 25 years. Dead kidney transplants have come down to 19 as of March 2020 from 87 last year. No data is available for Gujarat. But an estimated 1.8 million suffer from kidney failure. Whereas in India 2 lakh people die due to liver failure.

India
In India, the rate of 1 million organ donation is 0.86, compared to 49.9 in Spain and 31.96 per million in the United States.
There is a great need for organ donation in India. India’s organ donation rate of 0.65 per million population (PMP) was disappointing. Which was one of the lowest organs in the world. Now getting good donations.

On an average 5 lakh – half a million Indians die every year due to organ failure. According to the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) description, 200,000 cornea donations are needed annually, while only 50,000 corneas are donated annually – 3 out of 4 people awaiting cornea donation are blind.

500,000 people receive organs every year

Transplants are required and many of them die due to non-availability of organs. In India, 5 lakh people die every year due to lack of timely help.

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While 200,000 kidneys, 50,000 hearts and 50,000 livers are required for transplantation, around 7936 kidney transplants, 1945 liver transplants, 241 heart transplants, 191 lung transplants, 25 pancreas and two small intestine transplants were performed by NOTTO in 2018.

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The total number of organ transplants performed every year in the country has increased from 4,990 in 2013 to 12,746 in 2019. According to the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation (GODT) website, India now ranks third in the world after the United States and China alone.

Behind Gujarat
In March 2020, Maharashtra overtook Tamil Nadu and Telangana in terms of organ donation and transplantation. The cost of organ transplant in India is around Rs 5 to 25 lakhs, which is a very high price for the middle or lower class. So organ donation works more for the affluent class. The Gujarat government needs to formulate a policy in this regard and announce assistance to government hospitals. So that the poor and middle class can be helped. Organ donors should be donated by the head.

brain dead in gujarat
There are many brain dead patients in Gujarat. If awareness increases among family members, it is certain that the long waiting list of organ donors will start decreasing. If the patient dies and is later cremated, he eventually falls to ashes, but if his organ is donated, many will be resurrected.
More than 1.5 lakh people are involved in accidents in the country. Every year in Gujarat 10-15 thousand people are accidentally branded. So if his family is willing to donate, one person can help 8 people live a new life and 50 people live nine lives.

57 Recognized Hospitals
August 13 is World Organ Donation Day. There is an organ donation monitoring committee of 15 doctors. Organized organ harvesting till 2018-19 at Government Medical College Surat. It was closed when new guidelines came. Now once again the Government Medical College has been approved. There are now 57 hospitals in Gujarat where organ donation is allowed.

Approved
The Health Department in Gujarat approved ‘SOTO’ (State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation) on 26 January 2019. Now patient is getting organ donor easily. The process of organ donation and transplantation has become faster and easier for patients.
Till now the process of patient and organ donation was done by the hospital itself. There was no such organization in Gujarat. With the creation of ‘Soto’, the patient is contacted by a donor anywhere in the state. Qualified ONOC is responsible for organ donation. Often the general public does not get NOC certificate from government officials for organ donation, the government process of NOC is complicated.

Organ Donor City – 2017
Surat is called the ‘Organ Donor City’ of Gujarat.

During the corona pandemic, Surat has carved out a niche in organ donation not only in Gujarat but across the country. In the year 2021, 111 organs have been donated and 102 patients have been transplanted. Surat also holds the record for organ donation of the youngest child. August 13 is celebrated as World Organ Donation Day across the world. Its purpose is to spread awareness about organ donation in the society.

In Gujarat, 180 people donated organs between January and December 2017. Half of which i.e. 91 organ donations took place in Surat. According to ‘Donate Life’, 28 people from Ahmedabad have donated their organs. 26 people from Bhavnagar donated organs In 2017 out of 106 kidney donations, 52 were from Surat. Bhavnagar is second with 17 kidney donations and Ahmedabad with 15 is at the third position. In 2017, 28 out of 62 liver donations were done in Surat. A total of 10 people from Gujarat donated hearts and out of these 9 were from Surat.

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In the presence of 300 organizations from Surat city, 221 organ donor families from South Gujarat were felicitated at Kiran Hospital. 25 prominent doctors of the city, including President Nilesh Mandlewala, who served through Donate Life, were also honored for their significant contribution towards organ donation.

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Nilesh Mandalwala, founder and president of Donate Life, has been working on organ donation since 2005. This institute was first started 12 years back on this day in 2005 in Surat. More than fifty percent of organ transplants done in Gujarat have been donated by Jeevan. Till 2017, 572 persons from different states of the country and abroad have been successful in giving new life by donating 245 Kidneys, 99 Livers, 6 Pancreas, 17 Hearts and 208 Eyes to the families of branded individuals from Surat and South Gujarat through Donate Life. new light. In Anand, only the patients who take organ donation from this institution have to bear the cost of surgery.

The first intestinal transplant in India was done in 1999 in Ahmedabad.

lungs – heart
The cost of heart transplant is about 20 lakh rupees. Will donate 38 hearts by 2020
In 2020, 4 hearts and 4 pairs of lungs were sent from Gujarat to other states. Out of which only 12 heart condition patients have been transplanted. At the same time, 26 hearts were sent to other states of India. There is a shortage of heart and lung transplant hospitals in the state, so the local people do not get the benefit. Organ donation is done on a large scale in Gujarat hospitals. Is. But it does not benefit the local people but people living in other parts of India. This directly points to the lack of transplant facilities in the state hospitals.
Moreover, 6 pairs of lungs donated by relatives of brain dead donor in Surat have not been transplanted in Gujarat patients.
There are 17 Kidney Transplant Centers and 5 Liver Transplant Centers in Gujarat.
The government inaugurated the heart and lung transplant program at UN Mehta Hospital. But it hasn’t started yet. Ahmedabad is the only registered private hospital for heart transplant.