Organ Recipient: Organ Recipient Athletes Demand Inclusion In Divyangjan Category | Jaipur News

Jaipur: Organ recipients who are athletes have demanded that the state government include them in the Divyangjan category and suggested that the health department include this in the Vision 2030 document.
“We are alive because of organ transplant. We are performing at international events but do not get any support from the state government or the Centre. We demand that we be included in the Divyangjan category to become entitled to facilities that other Divyangjan athletes are getting from the government,” said Amit Kumar Sharma, an organ recipient who has represented India in international organ transplant games. He was speaking at a state-level consultation organised by the health department on Wednesday for preparing the Vision 2030 document. At the event, he introduced three other athletes who are kidney recipients and have been taking part in organ transplant games.
Several NGOs gave their suggestions about encouraging organ donation in the state. “Non-transplant organ retrieval centres should come up at all government medical colleges; brain death committees should be formed at the hospitals; training should be imparted on interventionists and ICU staff to identify brain death; space should be designated for counselling of attendants of brain-dead patients (to encourage them to donate organs),” said Bhavna Jagwani, convenor of Mohan Foundation Jaipur Citizen Forum (MFJCF). Jagwani advocated conducting a brain death audit to find out how many brain deaths are declared from accident cases and how many of them lead to organ donation.