Pledge Your Organ

AWARENESS ON ORGAN DONATION

SAVE LIFE… OR JUST TURN INTO ASHES

Types of Transplant

  1. Living donor transplant
    • One kidney or part of the liver
    •  Operation on the donor
  2. Cadaveric transplant
    • 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

  1. Malignancy
    • (except primary brain tumors, low-grade skin malignancies, and carcinoma in situ of the cervix)
  2. Uncontrolled Sepsis
  3. 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