Mysuru: Medical brotherhood has appreciated the main initiative of the Minister of Bukavaraj Bommai to promise organs and appeal to the public to save lives with similar movements.
This can help many recipients get organs quickly.
A list of patients waiting to receive organs, including kidneys, will rise given the increase in the number of patients with chronic kidney disease.
Because of lifestyle changes, coupled with hypertension, diabetes and advanced aging, more people become vulnerable to kidney disease.
N G Bhartheesha Reddy, Vice President of Apollo (MySore Unit), welcomed CM signs to contribute organs and feel this can make health service providers easier in convincing donors and family members.
“Kidney requirements have risen in this region because of various factors, including lifestyle.
In the past year, we have carried out 26 kidney harvests and transplants.
Among them, 22 comes from Live Donations.
However, 65 is on the waiting list.
Five transplants The heart has been done, while 14 is still waiting, “he said, added:” Health staff face challenges because there are not many who are willing to donate organs.
There are two types of donations – living donors and donations from patients to death brain.
Organ, if donated, can be useful for someone If their relatives advance.
“The government must come with an initiative to encourage people to donate organs and save lives, feel the Bhartheesha.
He also suggested that the government loosen the rules in declaring dead patients on Tamil Nadu lines, where the number of organ harvests and the highest transplant in South India.
Dr.
Manjunath S Shetty, Head of the Nephrology Department, JSS Hospital, said one of his patients had waited for five years to accept the kidneys because the waiting list was large.
“There is a big demand for the current kidney because of the case of kidney failure more than the heart and heart.
Lately, many patients who undergo dialysis are added to the waiting list,” he said.
Because of the pandemic, there was a delay in the fifth division settings ‘Jeeva Sarthakathe’, the body formed by Karnataka to oversee the implementation of human organ transplants, in Mysore.
At present, Karnataka has four zones – Bengaluru-MySuru, Mangaluru-Manipal, Dharwad-Besagavi and Kalaburagi – who decide to harvest organs and transplants.
The source says around 4,000 are waiting for the kidneys and about 1,000 for the heart.