Donate your organs – You can gift a life!

I attended the ‘Multi Organ Donation Awareness Camp’ which was about donating organs to the needy recipients. Multi Organ donation can be done only in the ‘Brain Death’ condition, which in medical terms called ‘Cadaver State’. In layman terms, the brain stops working as there is no blood supply to the brain but blood is being circulated to the other parts of the body mechanically using medical equipments. Only in such conditions organs can be donated; Brain Deaths in most of the cases happen due to road accidents.
 
‘Transplantation of Human Organ (THO) Act’ in 1994, of the Indian Legislation; states a declaration procedure, which requires the involvement of four doctors, two from the hospital and two from the government to follow multiple clinical procedures to declare a patient Brain Dead. Astoundingly organs which could be donated are Eyes, Skin, Heart, Lungs, Pancreas, Kidney, Bones, Liver etc; multiple needy patients could be benefited by one Cadaver state patient’s multi organ donation. More information on ‘Cadaver Organ Donation and Transplantation in India’. Institutions like MOHAN – (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation, Chennai, are actively involved in spreading this message to the public. Every state in India has an institution which is actively involved in inculcating the organ donation epidemic and facilitating the needy. MOHAN is a NGO which covers the state of Tamil Nadu; ZCCK is a government initiative for the state of Karnataka. If you would like to check your knowledge on Multi Organ Donation; participate in this online survey. 
 
Gift a life – its good to know that a part of our loved one is still alive somewhere in someone!

Does common sense exist?

Enjoying Bangalore’s morning weather, I drove my car to office on the Airport Road – now one of the happy to ride roads after the movement of the Airport to BIAL, Devanahalli. A huge milk van just ahead of me and bikes, cars plying on the way; suddenly there flew a polythene cover out of the van’s window; I thought ‘What the heck?’ and don’t know whose face it grabbed. I thought accidentally it’s flying out but next flew the empty newspaper which had wrapped a food bundle earlier and now in the air. Gulping the food inside and throwing the waste outside into the open road; what do you call such creatures?? I make sure not even a bus ticket is thrown out in public and make sure I properly dispose the garbage. Specimens come early in the morning to spoil other’s day; he didn’t stop with throwing this garbage out into the road; he started washing his dirty hands way out of his window from the tall van. Now you can imagine what would happen to those bikers traveling on the road?? It’s HAL Airport road where umpteen numbers of people commute and not even a highway.
 
Do such creatures have brains?? Intolerable acts of ill manners; I just blew my horn as loud as I could and the specimen popped his head out of the window and I gestured my protest; he coolly counter protested. In these moments, I had always wished I had the power and authority to bang such idiotic creatures; atleast we should levy heavy on-the-spot fine, so that he makes sure he learns his social etiquette and doesn’t dare to do it again.