Mysuru: Appreciating the initiative of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, the medical fraternity has appealed to the public to pledge organs and save lives with similar gestures.
This can help many recipients receive organs quickly. The list of patients waiting to receive organs, including kidneys, is increasing in number of chronic patients. kidney Disease. Due to lifestyle changes, high blood pressure, diabetes and increasing age, more people are falling prey to kidney diseases.
NG Bharathisha Reddy, Vice President, Apollo (Mysore Unit) welcomed the CM’s gesture to donate organs and felt that it could ease the job of healthcare providers in convincing the donors and their family members.
“The need for kidneys in this area has increased due to various factors including lifestyle. We have harvested and transplanted 26 kidneys in the last one year. Of these, 22 were from live donations. Still 65 are on the waiting list. Five liver transplants have been done, while 14 are still waiting. There are two types of donations – donations from living donors and brain-dead patients. If organs are donated, it may be useful to someone when their relatives come forward. ”
Bhartisha felt that the government should take initiative to encourage the public to donate organs and save lives. He also suggested that the government relax the rules for declaring patients dead on the lines of Tamil Nadu, where the number of Organ harvest and transplant Most are in South India.
Dr Manjunath S Shetty, head of the nephrology department of JSS Hospital, said one of his patients has been waiting for five years to get a kidney as the waiting list is huge. “There is a huge demand for kidneys today as the cases of kidney failure are more than that of liver and heart. Recently, many patients who are on dialysis being added to the waiting list,” he said.
Due to the pandemic, the setting up of the fifth division of ‘Jiva Sarthak’, a body set up by Karnataka to oversee the implementation of human organ transplants in Mysore, is delayed.
Currently, there are four regions in Karnataka – Bengaluru-Mysuru, Mangaluru-Manipal, Dharwad-Belagavi and Kalaburagi – that decide on organ harvesting and transplantation. Sources said around 4,000 are waiting for the kidney and around 1,000 are waiting for the liver.
This can help many recipients receive organs quickly. The list of patients waiting to receive organs, including kidneys, is increasing in number of chronic patients. kidney Disease. Due to lifestyle changes, high blood pressure, diabetes and increasing age, more people are falling prey to kidney diseases.
NG Bharathisha Reddy, Vice President, Apollo (Mysore Unit) welcomed the CM’s gesture to donate organs and felt that it could ease the job of healthcare providers in convincing the donors and their family members.
“The need for kidneys in this area has increased due to various factors including lifestyle. We have harvested and transplanted 26 kidneys in the last one year. Of these, 22 were from live donations. Still 65 are on the waiting list. Five liver transplants have been done, while 14 are still waiting. There are two types of donations – donations from living donors and brain-dead patients. If organs are donated, it may be useful to someone when their relatives come forward. ”
Bhartisha felt that the government should take initiative to encourage the public to donate organs and save lives. He also suggested that the government relax the rules for declaring patients dead on the lines of Tamil Nadu, where the number of Organ harvest and transplant Most are in South India.
Dr Manjunath S Shetty, head of the nephrology department of JSS Hospital, said one of his patients has been waiting for five years to get a kidney as the waiting list is huge. “There is a huge demand for kidneys today as the cases of kidney failure are more than that of liver and heart. Recently, many patients who are on dialysis being added to the waiting list,” he said.
Due to the pandemic, the setting up of the fifth division of ‘Jiva Sarthak’, a body set up by Karnataka to oversee the implementation of human organ transplants in Mysore, is delayed.
Currently, there are four regions in Karnataka – Bengaluru-Mysuru, Mangaluru-Manipal, Dharwad-Belagavi and Kalaburagi – that decide on organ harvesting and transplantation. Sources said around 4,000 are waiting for the kidney and around 1,000 are waiting for the liver.
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