DONATE LIFE ORGANIZED WALKATHON’16 FOR RAISING AWARENESS OF ORGAN DONATION ON INDIAN ORGAN

To mark a celebration of Indian Organ Donation Day on 27^th November, 2016, Surat based NGO, Donate Life organized first of its kind initiative called DONATE LIFE SURAT WALKATHON’16. During the program Shri Nilesh Mandlewala, President, Donate Life, shared information related to the functioning & activities carried out by Donate Life. Talking about the Organ Donation in India, he said that in India every year more than 5 lakh people (suffering from organ failure) die due to the non-availability of organs. And year by year approximately 2 lakh more patients are adding this number. And the situation for diseases related to Heart, Liver and Pancreas is same. As many as 9 lives can be regenerated with the organ donation of one person. Hence, the objective of organizing DONATE LIFE SURAT WALKATHON’16 is to aware more & more people about the importance of organ donation.

DONATE LIFE SURAT WALKATHON’16 acted as a comprehensive awareness program, which aimed to –

• Bring awareness of critical need for more organ donors and educate the masses about life saving power of organ donation
• Encourage the participants to pledge for donating organs after brain death and to spread awareness about the importance of organ donation amongst their family members. (Because pledging to donate organs doesn’t ensure that organs will be used for saving lives in future unless the donors convince their families for donating organs after his death). Thus saving the life of organ failure patients with the organs donated by brain dead persons
• Dispel misconceptions surrounding organ donation. Most importantly it will make one understand that if you express the desire to donate your organs then it will only happen after your death and that too only after the consent of your relatives