Curtain Raiser press conference on Online Organ Donation Registration & Awareness Camp organised in Jammu

JAMMU 12 Oct : State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) J&K in collaboration with Bhartiye Jain Sanghthana (BJS) J&K, SS Jain Sabha J&K, Jain Taruni Mandal and Jain Yuvak Sangh today organized today a Curtain Raiser press conference on Online Organ Donation registration & Awareness Camp for the general public organising on 14th October 2023.

While chairing the press conference Dr. Sanjeev Puri, Joint Director, J&K SOTTO informed that this camp is under Ayushman Bhava campaign initiated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. The campaign was started from 17 Sept 2023 onwards. One of the key initiatives of this campaign is to raise awareness about Human Organ/Tissue Donation and motivate people to pledge to donate organs after death and as a part of this, J&K SOTTO is also organizing many awareness activities in J&K.

He said that the Organ Donation rate from deceased donors in our country is estimated to be 0.52 per million populations. In comparison, the organ donation rate in Spain, the highest in the world, is 49.6 per million population.

Organ donation is the need of the hour as many people are struggling with end stage diseases and they need organs like kidney, liver, heart, lungs etc. to survive. Not everyone can get a living donor and they also have to get on the waiting list for transplantation. And to reduce this demand and supply gap of human organs, it is very important to have deceased donors in our Country and this can be possible only when a person can get organs from deceased donors and for that a person needs to be motivated to donate organs.

Mr. Sandeep Jain, State President, BJS invited the general public to come in the camp with Aadhar linked mobile to get registered for the noble drive for organ donation in presence of Mr Pardeep Jain, Vice President BJS J&K, Mrs. Neelu Jain Vice President BJS J&K and Mrs. Shelly Jain, Joint Secy BJS J&K. They requested that general public that they can visit at Namah, Opp. Bahu Plaza, Gandhi Nagar Jammu on 14 October 2023(Saturday) between 11am to 4pm.