April 14, 2007
Nikita Anand, Gul Panag
Pledge Organs
for Donation
New Delhi
Former Miss India Nikita Anand and Bollywood actor Gul Panag, and
many army officers Saturday pledged their organs for donation at the
Army Research and Referral Hospital in the capital.
"Thousands of people suffering from organ dysfunction can benefit
from organ donation and we are trying to help people especially our
three services," said Lt. General S. Mukherjee, director general of
medical Services (Army).
While assuring that her family would cooperate with her in this
great cause, Panag, in her pledge said: "I, Gul Panag, hereby pledge
to donate my organs in case of brain death."
"As I have a army background, it would be my pleasure to donate my
organs for the betterment of some services person or even their
family members," she added.
R.P. Choubey, head of the liver transplant department at the
hospital, said that the three services and their dependant
constitute one-sixth of India's population and this initiative would
go a long way to do another great job for the country.
"We will ask all our service people to donate their organs and of
their family members in case of brain death. We should not take our
organs to heaven, they are required on earth," Choubey told IANS.
He said since they took up this campaign army hospital has reported
14 brain death cases of which seven were approached to donate organs
but only two have donated.
"The donation have helped eight people including two soldiers," he
added.
Brain death is a situation when the brain stops functioning but
heart beats were still on. The person was dead but some of its
organs were alive for some hours and that is the time when they
should be retrieved.
Major S.K. Singh and Major Bipin Choudhury donated the organs of
their father and mother after they were declared brain dead.
While Singh's effort helped two people, Chowdhury's action saved the
life of five people including a 30-year old soldier and another
22-year-old soldier.
Army also launched an Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and
Transplantation Authority (AORTA) that aims at creating awareness
about organ donations, organ retrieval and transplantation.
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