Speaking at an event in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, President Pranab Mukherjee touched upon an important subject towards which less attention has been paid by the civil society. It is the subject of people making will that after their death some of their organs and tissues be donated to be implanted to the ailing persons so that they recover health. There are some organs about which philanthropic people make a will that these be donated. We have a large number of patients in the country who could regain their health if some of their defective limbs were replaced. Unfortunately there is lot of unawareness and superstition in our society which hinder donation of limbs and tissues after death. Spain has the highest number of donation will which is about 35 per cent while we in India have barely 0.02 per cent. There is great need of educating the people to shun superstition and make the will for donating limbs and tissues. Doctors believe that there are at least 35 such parts of the body as a man with dead brain can donate. But owing to lack of knowledge it does not materialize. There has been some movement in regard to making appeals for donation of eyes but the response is negligible. We would say that awareness campaign has to be undertaken to make the society responsive. This can be done by social activists, NGOs and even by doctors through lecture series.
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