Organ donation is a common term in today’s date but very few people are well aware of this medical procedure to step forward and donate organs to save a life. The process of removing an organ from the body of a living or deceased person is called harvesting. The recovered organ from the body of the donor is transplanted to recipient’s body through proper medical procedure. As per global survey, India is lagging far behind in organ donation (0.00005% as compared to 0.003% in western world) and the main reason behind it is lack of awareness and a lot of misconceptions.

In India, nearly 5 lakh people die due to non availability of organ per year as the country is suffering from an acute shortage of organ donor. It is scientifically proven that a person can save 8 lives by donating his/her organs. But a lot of myths prevail in Indian society regarding organ donation and through mass spread of awareness campaigns only, these myths can be replaced by facts to save thousands of lives. On this Organ Donation Day, let us take a pledge to donate organ and spread the awareness.