The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS as it is commonly called, is training its doctors and nurses to convince families of patients who are either declared brain dead or dead to donate organs.
A living donor can donate only a kidney, a portion of pancreas and liver to his or her immediate blood relative but an individual declared brain dead, who is otherwise healthy, can help multiple persons. His or her heart, two kidneys, liver, corneas, even the bones and skin can be used to infuse new life into others.
While Spain has 35 organ donors per million people, Britain has 27 donors, US 26, Canada 14 and Australia 11, India's count stands at about 0.1 donors per million population.
Such an excercise should be undertaken at other government as well as private hospitals.
Read more of this in a report by Durgesh Nandan Jha in Times of India.....
