Since its inception in 2014, the NGO members have facilitated meetings between 125 donor and recipient families. “When a family decides to donate the organs, they are always curious about who the organ going to go to. Out of 217 cadaver donations in Gujarat between 2006 and 2017, 125 were from Surat, where the NGO played a vital role in counselling families to donate organs. However, there have been three incidents in the past, where, the donor families have demanded monetary compensation from the recipient families, which is illegal,” he said. Anirrudh Kulkarni, an organ transplant coordinator at Jupiter Hosital, Thane also said that they ‘restrict’ donor families from having any interaction with the recipient family.

Source: Hindustan Times July 02, 2017 19:30 UTC