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PGIMER Chandigarh on Thursday was awarded the national award in the ‘UT with the highest number of deceased donors’ category for its contribution towards the promotion of cadaver organ donation at an event organised to celebrate the 13th Indian Organ Donation Day by NOTTO (National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization) at Manekshaw Hall in New Delhi on Thursday.
Adding to the accolades was another milestone as Dr Ashish Sharma, Head, Department of Renal Transplant Surgery, PGIMER was also honoured for ‘exemplary performance in transplant surgery’ during the event.
While Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya was the chief guest, several senior functionaries of the ministry also marked their presence. It is the fifth time that the national award has been given to PGIMER Chandigarh for its work towards deceased organ donation. Earlier, PGIMER won four national awards in the best hospital category in the deceased donation programme.
The award for being the UT with the highest number of deceased donors instituted this year has been won for the first time.
Speaking after the recognition, Vivek Lal, Director, PGIMER, said that it is an “honour to be acknowledged nationally” for the contribution towards the promotion of the deceased organ donation programme. “With 41 deceased donations impacting 110 lives, over 150 awareness programmes and an equally robust registry here in PGIMER, during 2022, Chandigarh was ahead of all the other union territories in the deceased donation programme,” he added. Lal highlighted that the the timing of the award is “perfect” as the institute has accomplished “300 deceased donations impacting 714 lives since the inception of the deceased donation programme in 1996”.
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What is really noteworthy is that 229 out of 300, i.e. 76 per cent of the deceased donations impacting 542 lives have been done since the designation of PGIMER as ROTTO (Regional Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization) in 2016. So ROTTO (North) has contributed immensely to creating an enabling environment through its incessant awareness campaigns which have given a major impetus to deceased donation programme.
In a recognition of bravery to donate the organs of their deceased dear ones, Dinesh Singh Thakur and Arnav Thakur, husband and son of donor Nisha Thakur (43 years), and Gurnam Singh and Harmeet Singh, father and brother of donor Abjot (13 years), were also felicitated and given a standing ovation.
This gesture of organ donation by both the families impacted eight lives with the transplantation of the heart, liver, kidneys, pancreas, and corneas. “Despite being no more, my wife Nisha is alive through five others who continue with their lives,” Dinesh said.
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