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Deceased donation programme in India and its future

Posted by srmcurology on Mon, 16 Nov 2009         
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It is estimated that currently India’s deceased donation rate is 0.08 per million population per year. The deceased donation programme is currently confined to about twenty multi-specialty hospitals that have good infrastructure logistics and are able to provide facilities such as counselling service for families of brain dead donors and have a waiting list of patients with end stage organ failure.  Initially in 1999, a meeting of six hospitals that were regularly doing deceased donations in Tam... Read More
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srmcurology

21 Sep 10
11:52 AM

More info about the above in the article - Nephrologists Sans Frontières Kidney International 77, 378-380 (March (1) 2010) | doi:10.1038/ki.2009.494 Deceased-donor renal transplantation program in IndiaNephrologists Sans Frontières Georgi Abraham, Sunil Shroff, Karopadi Shivanand Nayak, Jayakumar Matcha, Mohan Rajapurkar, Yuvaram N V Reddy, Varun Sundaram and Yogesh N V Reddy Abstract The crude and age-adjusted incidence rates of end-stage renal disease are estimated to be 151 and 232 per million population, respectively, in India.1 Chronic kidney disease in India is predominantly due to diabetes mellitus and hypertension, as shown by data from the Indian CKD registry, comprising 36,000 patients.

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