The ‘Gift an Organ’, a vertical of CII Young Indians, Bhopal chapter, on Thursday honoured the organ donors and their family members.
The Vertical, which runs organ donation awareness campaign round the year, will organise around 50 awareness camps before World Organ Donation Day (13 August). To achieve this target the volunteers of the organisation are holding workshop, seminars, counselling sessions and other motivational activities in industries, educational institutions and spreading message through social media and their website www.giftanorgan.org.
This was informed at a press conference organised here on Thursday. District Collector Sudam Khade was the chief guest of the programme. The conference was addressed by Rakesh Bhargava, honorary member CII Young Indians and Young Indians Bhopal chapter chairman Hitesh Ahuja.
District Collector Khade in his addressed lauded the Gift An Organ initiative of CII Young Indians. He said that donating an organ is a noble cause and we all should come forward to join the initiative. “Your donation can save someone’s precious life,” he said.
Rakesh Bhargava said that due to lack of awareness lesser people come forward to donate their organs. He said, “Every minute one person dies in India waiting for organ donation. One donor can save 8 lives and improve 50 other lives. There are 37 organs and tissues one can donate post his or her death.”
Hitesh Ahuja, chairman, Young Indians, Bhopal chapter informed that one can donate his heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, small intestines and eyes. In order to facilitate organ donation Young Indians is reaching to as many people as possible.
He further said that nearly 5 lakh people die each year due to organ failure.
These patients can be saved if they could get donor organs. He said there is huge gap between demand and supply of organs.
Those who were honoured included Amit Bhargava, Ambika Prasad Shrivastava, Jiwat Ram Paryani, Bhagwati Ben Soni, Dr Prem Narayan Puntambekar, Ashok Patil, Vivek Malhotra, Sarla Verma and Dr Sangeeta Tank.