{"id":1010,"date":"2017-08-12T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2017-08-12T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T05:17:29","slug":"organ-donation-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/organ-donation-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ Donation: The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a critical shortage of organs and the gap between organs donated and people waiting for transplant is increasing. Every year around five lakh people die waiting for an organ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some gruelling facts that convey the reasons why India needs to donate organs more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Around 1,00,000 people die of liver diseases. Only 1000 get a liver transplant.<\/li>\n<li>More than 2,20,000 people await kidney transplants but only 15,000 get one.<\/li>\n<li>10 lakh people await a corneal transplant.<\/li>\n<li>50,000 people need a heart transplant.<\/li>\n<li>20,000 people await a lung transplant.<\/li>\n<li>Only around 0.34 persons per million of population donate organs in India\u2019s population in a year.<\/li>\n<li>Deceased donation transplantation is now responsible for almost 40% of the liver transplants done in the country and over 15% of kidney transplants.<\/li>\n<li>At any given time, there are 8-10 brain-dead potential donors in ICUs of any major city.<\/li>\n<li>When a trained counsellor talks to the relatives of a brain dead patient and explains the possibility of organ donation, almost 65% will agree to donate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 align=\"center\">Give a missed call to 80800 55555 to support Organ Donation.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a critical shortage of organs and the gap between organs donated and people waiting for transplant is increasing. Every year around five lakh<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/organ-donation-the-numbers\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kokilabenhospital.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}