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Jeevandaan fast catching up in Telangana as more people opting for donating organs
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Our Bureau, Hyderabad
November 25 , 2015
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The Jeevandhaan, the novel organ donation progarmme initiated by the
earlier governments in the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, is fast catching up
in new state of Telangana. The main reason for this growing awareness
and of course the initiatives taken up the authorities implementing the
Jeevandhaan has also attracted more people to opt for organ donation.
Recently
the family members of 2 brain dead persons donated 12 organs to
Jeevandhaan scheme of the state government. Both Kancha Singh and
Adinarayan Reddy, who were critically injured in different accidents,
were declared brain dead by the doctors and after counseling with the
family members, they agreed to donate their 2 kidneys, 2 corneas, liver
and heart valves respectively. “We agreed to donate the organs as we
felt we could help those who are struggling to live a quality life. We
tried our best to save my father but as he lapsed into coma. We thought
if he could give others a chance, and we went ahead. If someone
somewhere is benefiting is a big solace to us in this hour of grief,”
informed Alekhya, daughter of Adinarayan Murthy.
“Not just these
two cases, even earlier may people have donated and many more are
willing to donate, except that there needs to be a small counseling to
convince and explain them about the novel cause. Awareness is picking up
in urban areas, but still there is much needed to be done to take this
forward in the rural areas, says Dr Swarna Latha, co-ordinator of
Jeevandhan.
Thanks to the Jeevandhaan project, the state
government has created a great website, where it is transparent and
allows anyone to get registered for organ donation or seeking organs.
Over
100 people seeking liver transplant have registered themselves on the
website of Jeevandan. The recent successful liver transplant in Osmania
General Hospital has also added confidence among the common people. The
TS government is also encouraging such transplants and sanctioned Rs.11 lakhs per each transplant operation.
The
waiting list earlier was of 250 patients. After the government scheme
was announced, more and more patients are coming forward to take
advantage. The next step for Jeevandan is to set up a Heart Transplant
Center in Gandhi Hospital. In the last three months, three hearts were
transported to Chennai, Dr Latha explained.
Jeevandan, an organ
donation scheme of the government, has been named as having one of the
best websites in the top 12 category in the country by the Union
Government.
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