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Organ recipients thank donors
Apollo Hospitals hosted an \'Organ Recipients Carnival and Thanks Giving\' on the eve of World Happiness Day on Saturday. Patients who underwent organ transplants at Apollo Hospitals expressed their gratitude to the organ donors\' families, whose generous decision gave them a new lease of life.
World Happiness Day
For someone who has been on the death bed, and unsure whether he will survive another day, an organ donors’ family provides a fresh lease of life and hopes of a better tomorrow
Apollo Hospitals hosted an 'Organ Recipients Carnival and Thanks Giving' on the eve of World Happiness Day on Saturday. Patients who underwent organ transplants at Apollo Hospitals expressed their gratitude to the organ donors' families, whose generous decision gave them a new lease of life.
Around 15 organ recipients and their families were joined by Sangita Reddy, Jt. Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals; Dr Manish C. Varma, Chief Transplant Surgeon, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad and Dr G Swarnalatha, In-charge, Jeevandan at the event.
Speaking on the occasion Sangita Reddy said, “This World Happiness Day celebration is a small effort from Apollo Hospitals in collaboration with Jeevandan to provide a forum to the recipient and families to express their gratitude to the donor families.”
However, there is a need to raise awareness about organ donation. Signing her registration for Jeevendan and handing it over to Dr Swarnalatha, Reddy said, “Till date only 10,000 people registered for organ donation through Jeevandan, by next year we should have at least one lakh registered to donate organs.”
Dr G Swarnalatha said that while it was fortunate to see many organ recipients at one place, there is still work to be done for those in the waiting list. “The All India organ donation rate is 0.5 per million population. Telangana ranks number two in donations after Tamil Nadu with 1.7 per million and Hyderabad eight per million population. If we continue at this rate we can be number one,” she said.
