awareness about organ donation after death is increasing
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- In India, due to the imbalance between availability and demand, kidneys were harvested from the poor Indians by exploiting their poverty.
- To ban this illegal sale of organs, in the year 1994, the Government of India passed “The transplantation of human organs act.”
- Under this act, donation of organs by deceased persons was made legal; and the transplantation between unrelated live individuals was made illegal.
- Nevertheless, due to lack of knowledge about the legal and procedural details of organ donation, kidneys are sold in the black, and frequently, the police uncover these illegal kidney transplant rackets.
- Thus, there is a great need for increasing awareness about the importance of organ donation and the legal provisions related to it.
- An assessment of awareness and attitude toward organ donation would help to plan sensitization programs and to propagate knowledge at the community level.
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