Original Research Article
Year: 2016 | Month: November | Volume: 6 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 89-92
A Study of Knowledge, Attitude and Willingness of the Population towards Organ Donation
Tejal Shelatkar1, Radhika Trivedi2, Reshma Turbhekar3, Shailaja Girishankar4
1Student, 2Student, 3Professor, 4Head of the Department,
Department of Microbiology, K J Somaiya College of Science and Commerce, Vidyavihar.
Corresponding Author: Tejal Shelatkar
ABSTRACT
Organ donation is a process where healthy organs are donated from the donor to the recipient who is in the need of transplantation. Transplantation process helps in curing many of diseases. Some organs of the body can be donated during life while some can be donated after life. Many diseases occur because of failure of organ or damage caused to organs. Kidney failure, liver failure, heart failure is some of the diseases which results from the damage of the organs. Most of the medicines cannot treat this diseases thus transplantation of the organ plays a vital role in the treatment of the patients. On donation of healthy organ by a healthy donor, the organ can be implanted into the patient and thus the damage can be cured. Due of misconceptions and religious beliefs, people refuses to donate their organs and show unwillingness towards the organ donation process. People are unaware of the current requirement for the organs for cure of diseases and illness. The benefits of the organ donation are not fully known to this people. Unawareness and false concepts about organ donation is the main reason for the less availability of the organs to be donated. The main focus of this case study is to determine the proportion of people wanting to donate their organs and not willing to donate their organs. It also made people aware of current situation and requirement for the organ for treatment. By informing people about the current demand and necessities of the organ for the treatment of many patients and giving a brief description about the welfare of society, enlightenment of people about the process of organ donation was done during this case study programme.
Key words: Organ donation, organ failure, treatment, misconceptions, awareness, enlightenment.