A 51-year-old brain-dead man has given a new lease of life to eight people after his organs were implanted on them in a private hospital in Coimbatore.
Updated Mar 12, 2021 | 14:32 IST
India just needs more awareness on deceased organ donation. Signing up does not mean you are bound by law to donate the organs of a deceased person in the family. It is the right to exercise an option. Organ donation saves lives | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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Literally lakhs of our citizens die each year, awaiting or for the want of the transplant of some vital organ or the other.
at an abysmal organ donation rate of 0.8 per million population which means that not even one person in 10 lakh people go on to become an organ donor as against 49 pmp of a country like Spain.