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Kgmu to revive Cadaverik multi-organ donation units

Kgmu to revive Cadaverik multi-organ donation units
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Lucknow: King George’s Medical University will revive the multi-organ (CMOD) multi-organ donation program in full way.
This program will help save hundreds of lives per year by taking organs from patients dead brain to transplant into their organs fail.
It will also enlighten the lives of people who are visually challenging through corneal transplants and helping those who suffer from skin cancer and severe burns.
Kgmu Trauma Center, On average, record 1-2 brain death every day.
Most of these patients are victims of accidents.
Some organs, including two kidneys, two lungs, liver, heart, pancreas, intestines, cornea and skin tissue, among others can be taken from the body.
KGMU Deputy Chancellor Lt Gen (RET) Prof.
Bipin Puri, who has taken the initiative to revive the CMOD program, “as the first step to revive the program, the University will hold a conscious workshop from Tuesday and paramedics of the faculty staff in the victim and critical care department.
It will be sensitive about what is a ‘brain death’ and about the steps that need to be followed after that so that organ harvesting can be done.
“” The counseling team will also be strengthened with more hands and training to convince the patient’s family to approve the organ donation from deceased.
“We will seek help in this case from the centers who run such a program successfully,” he added.
Furthermore, he said, a committee will also be formed to coordinate between departments for managed to coat from the program.
The Committee will also confirm that CMOD is done according to organ transplant organization and national networks and organ organizations or organ networks, he added.
Donations can only be done when a patient is declared dead brain after 2 consecutive apnea tests in six hours apart.
The Apnea test is a mandatory examination to determine brain death because it provides an important sign of the definitive loss of brain stem function.
CMOD starts at KgMu by the Surgical Gastroenterology Department in 2016.
Since then, the department led by Prof.
Abhijit Chandra has done around 30 cmods.
About 24 hearts were sent to Delhi-based institutions and 58 kidneys to SGPGIM for transplantation.
Cornnas is used by your Ophthalmic Kg department.
Two Cadaverik’s liver transplants were also carried out in Kgmu themselves after surgical gastroenterology began to transplant liver here.
Cadacerik’s heart transplantation was last carried out in March 2020.
Despite the lack of financial and administrative support, the program lasts for three years, but must be suspended due to a pandemic.
Assistance from religious leaders will also seek help from religious leaders to motivate and make people aware of the importance of donations and corpse organ transplants.
VC lt Gen Bipin Puri said, “A lot of time was found that the family refused donations because of religious beliefs.” Times Kidneys and liver transplants above are taking place through direct donations at this time.
Body contributions can save many lives without risking living donors and checking malpractices.
KgMu’s efforts will encourage people to donate the organs of the people they love after their death, so it saves the lakh life

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