Organ donation involves surgically removing healthy organs or tissues from a donor and transplanting them into a recipient. It saves lives by meeting the growing demand for organs. While it allows life to continue after a donor's death, some view it as unethical due to religious beliefs or concerns about the process. Supporters argue it is beneficial as donors can still live normal lives and a single donor's organs can help multiple recipients. However, issues around consent, commercialization, and ensuring proper regulation remain challenging aspects of organ donation.

1. ORGAN DONATION: EVIL OR
ANGEL?
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2. Organ donation
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• Organ donation is when a person allows an organ of theirs to
be removed, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive
or after death with the assent of the next of kin.
• Donation may be for research, or, more commonly healthy
transplantable organs and tissues may be donated to be
transplanted into another person.

3. Why organ donation?
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• It saves lives
• It’s a great service
• It makes life after donors death
• It breaks away all kinds of
discrimination
• Demand for organs is growing
day by day worldwide

4. Angel or Evil ?
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5. History
• The first living organ donor in a successful transplant was Ronald
Lee Herrick (1930)
• The lead surgeon, Joseph Murray, won the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for advances in organ
transplantation.
• The youngest organ donor was a baby with anencephaly, born in
2015, who lived for only 100 minutes and donated his kidneys to
an adult with renal failure.
• The oldest known organ donor was a 107-year-old Scottish
woman, whose corneas were donated after her death in 2016.
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6. Contd..
• In the literature, varying
terminology for living organ
donation can be found.
• According to this approach, one
could distinguish between
"specified" and "unspecified"
donation.
• Within specified donation, a
distinction can be made
between "direct" and "indirect"
donation
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7. Effecting factors
• Living body & dead body
• Living donors
• Dead donors
• Surgical process
• Transplantation
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8. Organ donation in Bangladesh
• Documents from different government and non-government
hospitals, CHOKH, an NGO were reviewed.
• Some approximate estimates 35,000 of them die of kidney
failure every year.
• The annual demand for the kidney transplant is estimated to
be 5,000.
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9. Contd.
• Bangladesh Organ Donation Law (1999):
Brain-death kidney donation.
Relatives can be donors.
• Transplantation (1982):
Organ Quantity
Kidney 1400
Cornea 5500
Liver 4
• Cornea transplantation has increased 3 times (2009).
• On average only around 100 people can manage kidneys
from their relatives to undergo a transplant
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Ref: www.organdonor.gov

10. Statistics
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• Donors can be of any age
• Death rate (less than 2%)
• People(waiting for donation) 90,000 /month
• Successful eye donation (95%)

11. Contd..
• 76% willing eye donors & less than 50% solid organ donors.
• OrganDonationQuantitypermonth:
Countries Quantity/month
Australia 11
Britain 27
Canada 14
Spain 35.1
USA 26
India 0.08
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Ref: www.health.zone/search

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Ref: www.netfind.com/organdonorregistry

13. Acts and Laws
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• Opt in and Opt out
• Organ selling is legally banned
• Brain death
• First relative donor
• Unrelated donors

14. • A single donor can save more than
one life
• Opt in and opt out
• A donor can have normal life even
after the transplant
• People who are certified brain dead
are capable of donating several body
parts
• Organs can be donated after death
and can be 'banked‘
• Potential donors are easy to find 14
Pros

15. So, is it Angel?
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16. Cons
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• Religious views
• Family beliefs
• Misconceptions
• Donors are scared of their own health
• Miscreant businessman
• Lawfully illegal donation

17. Ethical issues
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• Bioethical issues
• Deontological issues(patient autonomy,living wills and
guardianships)
• Teleological issues (transplant tourism , organ theft, black
market, exploitation)
• Political issues

18. Awareness
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• Dispel myths and misconceptions about organ donation
• Avoid exploitation and misuse of organ donations
• Carry a donor card

19. Conclusion
“Don't think of organ donations as giving up part of yourself to keep a
total stranger alive. It's really a total stranger giving up almost all of
themselves to keep part of you alive.”
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20. Thank you
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