NEW DELHI: Increasing levels of awareness have ensured that the number of people coming forward to donate their organs after death has gone up three times in the last three years, from 190 in 2012 to 570 in 2015. It is an incredibly small number considering the lakhs of people waiting for an organ donation but several surveys indicate a growing awareness and willingness among people to donate organs.“The infrastructure to harvest organs and to carry out transplants has to keep pace with the growing willingness.

Without this, we may end up with a situation where people are coming forward to donate but hospitals are not equipped to harvest organs,“ points out Dr Sunil Shroff, senior consultant, urologist and transplant surgeon, and managing trustee of Mohan Foundation, an NGO that promotes organ donation. About 95% of transplants are taking place in the private sector; large swathes of the country have no donations and no transplants.This is because these areas have no hospital to support the programme even after more awareness ensures more donors, said Dr Shroff…..Readmore