Organ Donation Day is observed annually on 30th of November. The aim of this day is to motivate normal human beings to pledge to donate organs after death.
It also works to spread awareness about the importance of organ donation.
Organ Donation is donating a donor’s organs like heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and pancreas, after the donor dies,
It is for the purpose of transplanting them into another person who is in need of an organ.
Facts About Organ Donation- 500,000 people die because of non-availability of organs.
- 200,000 people die due to liver disease, and 50,000 people die because of heart disease.
- Moreover, 150,000 people await a kidney transplant but only 5,000 among them get it.
- Anyone can be a donor, through 18 and below need agreement of parent or guardian to be donor.
- Tissues such as cornea, heart valves, skin, and bone can be donated in case of natural death.
- Vital organs such as heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and pancreas can be donated only in the case of ‘brain death’.
