Dr. Deepak Gupta, Professor of Neurosurgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Delhi, who headed the team that transplanted the organs of six-year old, Rolly Prajapati, has added a comment to ‘An Illiterate Family in India Gives the Educated World a Lesson’ (please see this article on the blog on May 3, 2022.)
He says, “I hope there will be some official recognition of the extremely rare decision by her parents: organ donation rates in India are among the lowest in the world. If only the Prime Minister would honor the family for their willingness to put their acute grief on one side until after they put in motion the process that saved the lives of people they knew absolutely nothing about, it would act as a beacon to encourage many other families to follow suit. Meanwhile, every year thousands of Indians, many of them young, some of them infants, die when one donated organ could have saved them.”
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