According to the doctors,every year more than 1,00,000 patients in the country suffer from end-stage renal disease out of which only 4,000 are able to receive a donor kidney.
Cadaver transplant is an organ transplant from a brain- dead person. “The idea is to spread awareness about the need to donate organs to bridge the gap between the demand and supply.
Doctors should practice what they preach to motivate people to come forward and take pledge to donate their organs,”said Rajeev Makhuri,senior organ transplant coordinator Organ Retrieval Banking Organization (ORBO).
The student doctors took this pledge at the annual cultural festival of the institute called “Infest”. The program was initiated by AIIMS Director M C Mishra, who explainedthe importance of organ and blood donation during the festival.
Organ donation is a novel job as it benefits the medical field, he had said. Many patients lose their lives just because they do not get organs to replace their failed organs, said Makhuri.