‘Lack of awareness, rise in lifestyle diseases hampering organ donation’
Dr Manoj Gumber, a consultant nephrologist at Apollo Hospital in Ahmedabad, said an estimated four lakh people die in India every year waiting for an organ transplant, and of them, at least half are eligible for the same.
December 17, 2020 4:37:29 am
Among other shortcomings of living organ donation is India’s policy of two-child norm and an apparent gender bias, says Dr Gumber. (Representational)
IT IS unlikely that the huge gap between demand for organ transplants and available donors, both living and cadaver, will be closed soon, nephrologist and other medical experts said at a virtual meet organised by the Institute of Law and Medicine on Tuesday. Besides a lack of awareness on organ donation, the rise non-communicable and lifestyle diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes, experts said, made matters difficult.