From presumed consent to incentives for donors, countries have tried different ways to promote organ donation among their people.
Read MoreThe Critical Link To Increasing Organ Donation Rates
The only way bolster the low figures of organ donation in India is by raising ground level awareness, dispelling misinformation and promoting people to register themselves as potential organ donors after death. The one point-person who can effectively do all of this is a Transplant Coordinator – a person who broaches the issue of organ donation with the family of a brain dead patient.
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64-year-old Sushma Swaraj has been offered kidneys by scores of people since Wednesday when she said on Twitter that she was in hospital due to kidney failure and was undergoing tests for a transplant.
Read MoreLife After Death: We Can Save Up To 7 Lives By Donating Organs
Each of us, on passing, can save up to 7 lives by way of organ donation. Each of us can enhance over 50 lives by way of tissue donation. Even in death, we bring life. We have More to Give.
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