Hospitals should help transplant of organs: AIIMS Director

It should be made mandatory for hospitals to notify the cases of brain dead patients at the earliest as it could help increase cadaver organ donation, said Director of AIIMS M C Mishra today.
"Experts should be given the responsibility to intimate about the brain dead cases without any delay. If a patient shows signs of brain dead, he should be constantly monitored so that those who are in need of organs, their lives could be saved."
He said there are around 80 to 100 cases of brain dead recorded in a year in AIIMS.
Citing the reason behing the conversion rate being as less as 10 percent, Mishra said the reasons for such a rate is often the refusal of the family members of the deceased to donate the deceased's organs.

Mishra was addressing an event that marked the completion of 300 living donor liver transplant cases in the year 2013 by Apollo Hospitals said.
"It is indeed an achievement in itself to complete more than 300 living donor liver transplants in single year. Liver transplantation has come a long way since its inception - we have witnessed a considerable progress in techniques and procedures and affordability of the treatment."
Shiv Sarin, Director, Institute of Liver and Bilary Sciences, said "the last one year has seen significant improvements in the field of Hepatology and Transplant Hepatology. Patients are now offered super specialized services and finest liver intensive and critical care services by specialized teams. Introduction of new advanced techniques has remarkably improved the treatment.