ORGAN DONATION: GIFT AN EXTRA LIFE
ORGAN DONATION: GIFT AN EXTRA LIFE
Change the Ending to Someone Story: Be an Organ Donor : Gift a Extra Life to needy, Reach Us at info@nemcare.com
Organ donation is the process of giving an organ or a part of an organ for the purpose of transplantation into another person.
Organ donation is the process of donating organs or biological tissue to a living recipient, who is in need of a transplant. The donor may be alive or deceased.Transplantation of organs is one of the greatest medical advancements of our times. People all over India are in immense need of Kidney, Liver, Heart, Cornea and Lungs. It is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location. Organs that have been successfully transplanted include the kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, intestine. Some organs, like the brain, cannot be transplanted. Tissues include bones, cornea, skin, heart valves, nerves and veins. Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly transplanted organs, followed by the liver and then the heart. Cornea and musculoskeletal grafts are the most commonly transplanted tissues.
Transplantation of human organs has assumed great significance in the medical world in recent times. Management of some diseases previously considered incurable and fatal has become possible as a result of the development of the science of organ transplantation.here in North East India, ROTTO is Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation located within the campus of Gauhati Medical College and Hospital in Guwahati. ROTTO Guwahati is one of the five regional centres setup under NOTTO (National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation) under the ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India. Nemcare Hospitals Pvt Ltd recommends ROTTO Guwahati and it will render immensely required medical services of organ donation and transplantation to the people of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura. Please feel free to contact them at -
ROTTO Office
GMCH Complex Near RIO (Regional Institute of Ophthalmology) Gauhati Medical College Hospital Pin: 781032 Email: contact@rottoguwahati.org Phone: 0361-2521010 Alternatively you can mail Nemcare Hospitals Pvt Ltd - info@nemcare.com or call +91-8822201201A DECEASED DONOR CAN GIVE: Liver Kidneys Lungs Intestinal Pancreas Heart Cornea
There are two ways to donate organs:
The standard categories are: By pledging for organ donation when a person is alive By consent of family after death
A deceased donor is kept on a ventilator after he or she has been declared brain dead until the organs can be retrieved. A brain dead person’s organs may stay alive for some specific time period; this period may range from days to weeks. However, once the organs have been removed from the body and stored in a chemical solution, they have limited life spans. The organs with the specific time period for transplantation are given below:
Heart: 4-6 hours Liver: 12-15 hours Kidney: 24-48 hours Pancreas: 12-24 hours Intestine: 6-10 hours Lung: 4-8 hours