Improved coordination between donation, retrieval and transplantation has led to a 10-fold increase in heart transplantations in India since 2016.
There have been nearly 300 heart transplantations across India in two years, according to data provided by the National Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organisation (NOTTO), the national coordinating agency for cadaveric organ donation, compared to about 350 between 2015 and 1994, when the first heart transplantation was done in India.
Since NOTTO was established in 2014, the organisation has worked towards creating awareness about organ donation and training medical staff in performing retrieval and transplant.
Till date, the organisation has also trained 1,300 counsellors across India who can guide families of brain dead patients for organ donation.
Read more of this in a report by Anonna Dutt published in Hindustan Times...
Also read this post of 4th October 2017 of how a brain dead youths heart beats in a 42 year old woman
http://bharatmahan.in/positive-news/brain-dead-youths-heart-now-beats-42yr-woman-1290
ans also about how more and more people are coming in with pledges to donate organs
http://bharatmahan.in/positive-news/people-pledging-organs-rise-9000-15-lakh-just-2-years-1771
