MedBlogs

Status of Deceased Donation Programme in India

Posted by srmcurology on Wed, 15 Jul 2009

(0) No of Views (4043)

Member SignIn
Please login to rate

Email
Password


Forgot Password? Sign up now

0 rating

The passing of the legislation - ‘Transplantation of Human Organ Act’ and the recognition of brain stem death,in the Indian Parliament has made the deceased donation programme in India possible. Spain has the highest number of organ donation rate from brain dead patients in the world at 33 per million population - Spain has a population of 40 million and has on an average 1340 Brain donors every year – 33x 40 =1340. This has been possible due to the co-ordination network between 139 hospi... Read More

Share this MedBlog

Post Your Comments

This is an open forum for the public. Please follow our Community Guidelines when posting any material. You are welcome to be critical or controversial, but avoid getting personal, abusive or offensive and try to keep your postings brief. All postings are being constantly reviewed for spam and irrelevant material (such as product advertisement or personal advertisements). Any posting that does not conform to our policy and 'Terms of Use' are deleted.
Remember threads are for only feedback and discussion. We will not use this material for publishing papers or advertisements.
You need to be registered with Medwonders to post any item. If you are a New User please register. You will be re-directed back to this page.