:: Gift Your Organ Foundation ::

How the process works?

During your lifetime, you can sign up to pledging your organ by filling up the online Organ Pledge Form . It is important to register your decision as an organ donor because in the event of brain death the transplant coordinators will refer the database to know if you are an organ donor and accordingly communicate your wish to your family for their consent.
On submitting the complete form, Gift your Organ in association with ZCCK (The Zonal Co-ordination Committee for Transplantation in Karnataka) will send you your Organ Pledge Card .

It will be your responsibility to get the signatures of 2 Witnesses on the Pledge Card, one of whom needs to be a close relative.
Keep this card in your wallet and share your decision with your near and dear ones.
Only if the death occurs on a ventilator, regardless of brain death or cardiac death, the Pledge Card will indicate your intentions. The doctors will then approach your family for their consent.
In the case of brain death or cardiac death on a ventilator without registration, your family members can donate your organs. For this they need to sign a consent form which will be provided at that time by the hospital.
In case of death at home, the family should contact the nearest Eye Bank so that the necessary logistics for the Eye or Tissue Donation can be organized.(list of eye banks in major cities across India)
In either case, only after receiving the family’s consent, the organs are retrieved. The process can take between 3-9 hours.
There is no cost borne by the Donor or his/her family.
The hospital takes care of all the logistics and details as the transplant coordination team carries out the entire process till the relatives receive the body of the deceased.
The deceased body is given back to the family in a dignified way. There is no disfigurement. The body can be viewed as in any case of death and funeral arrangements need not be delayed or changed.

Donors

"Letting my daughter go was the most difficult decision that I have had to take. But what gives me the strength to go on is the fact that she continues to live in the hearts and lives of the people whom she had helped," said Mr. Bharech, who decided to donate Harshita's organs.

Donors

"My wife had expressed her desire to donate her eyes and organs. According to her will, we gave our consent for organ retrieval,"said Mr. Menon whose wife gave a new life to five people by way of organ donation. He continues that his wife has given the best gift to humanity by donating her organs!

Donors

"I want my son to live forever. We are glad our son can help someone even in his death" were the words spoken by Mr. Pradeep who donated the eyes of his 6 year old son Mohit who died in a road accident.

Recipients

"Life after death is possible only by 'Organ Donation'. One can live after his death, or can see his beloved ones living after their death by organ donation. This simply requires decision for organ donation at right time and at right place. It is truest gift of life." - Mrs. Preeti Unhale who underwent a heart transplant in 2001.

Recipients

"I felt elated at the prospect of receiving a new kidney and a new life." - Anupam Gokhale who under went a kidney transplant operation

Recipients

"Today I am alive because a family decided to grant me life by donating organs of their near ones. By doing so, God alone knows what a great deed they have done." - Mrs. Anita Malhotra, a kidney transplant recipient

Recipients

"Organ Donation is a gift from one family to the other. It is a contribution to the society from which we are getting so much." - Mr. Mahabir Singh who underwent a heart transplant.