A study of organizing organ transplant across states in India

Publication date: Available online 28 January 2017 Source:Indian Journal of Transplantation Author(s): Rachna Dubey, Sanjay Dixit, Sanjay Dubey Organ donation is the gift of an organ to a person with end stage organ disease and who needs transplant for therapeutic purpose. In central India particularly in the state of Madhya Pradesh, there was no concrete & streamlined mechanism operational, pertaining to organ donation after Brain Stem Death. A society called Indore Society for Organ Donation (ISOD) was established exclusively for the cause of popularizing and facilitating organ tissue & body donation in Indore division of Madhya Pradesh. In a span of almost 2 years ISOD has achieved many milestones. It has successfully coordinated and created inter-state Green Corridors involving different states besides multiple Green Corridors within city and outside it. With the first Organ Donation Indore become the first city of central India to be able to execute such a case, second case was first in M.P. for simultaneously creating two Green Corridors to transport organs harvested from a brain dead patient. In Case 3 it is first time in the country that two crucial organs like liver and heart were flown to two different states simultaneously & four corridors were created first time in central India. The case 4 was a first case in central India when 12 years of boy donated his organs & also a first case of central India when Green Corridor was crea...
Source: Indian Journal of Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Source Type: research