Pledge Your Organ
AWARENESS ON ORGAN DONATION
SAVE LIFE… OR JUST TURN INTO ASHES
Types of Transplant
- Living donor transplant
- One kidney or part of the liver
- Operation on the donor
- Cadaveric transplant
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- Organs donated after death
- Organs pledged previously
- The family agrees for donation
- All organs and tissues including vital organs
Who can donate?
- Anyone, at any age
- Living Donor (Kidneys/Liver)
- Immediate Blood Relative
- Unrelated
- Donor Consent
- Deceased Donor (Only Skin & Eyes)
- Brain Dead – All Organs
- Consent from relatives
- No monetary benefit
Cadaveric Skin Harvesting
- The skin should be harvested within 6 hours after death
- The procedure takes 45 minutes
- Only a superficial layer of the skin is harvested from legs, thighs, and back
- No matching is required
- No Bleeding
- No disfigurement
EXCEPTIONS
Organs cannot be harvested from Donors with
- Malignancy
- (except primary brain tumors, low-grade skin malignancies, and carcinoma in situ of the cervix)
- Uncontrolled Sepsis
- Active viral infections
- causing encephalitis, herpes hepatitis, and AIDS
- In case of Liver Transplant – Fatty infiltration of Liver
Facts on Organs required
- 4000 kidney transplanted 1,50,000 required
- 500 livers transplanted 20,000 required
MYTH: Donors family will have to pay more money to the hospital
FACT: After the declaration of death, the hospital bears all expenses of artificially supporting the donor.
Which organs can be donated?
BRAIN DEAD Person