Daily News and Analysis | Alifya Khan
Even as nearly 300 patients in Pune are on the waiting list for kidneys, the low rate of cadaver donations in the city poses a grim picture for renal patients in need of transplants.
This year, only one cadaver donation has taken place in the city which took place at Command Hospital in March. With an average of less than eight cadaver transplants per year (if figures of previous years is considered), chances of finding a kidney donated by the family of a brain-dead patient are dismal.
The low rate of cadaver donations leave renal patients with no choice, but look elsewhere for donors.
According to transplant coordinators, if a kidney patient is unable to find a donor within his/her family, they have to wait for several years to find a cadaver kidney, and this wait might prove to be fatal in some cases.
Transplant social workers in city hospitals claim that the city lags in cadaver donations due to lack of awareness about organ donation and government inaction to motivate human organ donation.
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