Organ donation.
This August 13 ,we celebrated World Organ donation day.This day is celebrated to spread awareness of Organ donation and promote the Organ donation drive amongst public. The 1st Organ Transplant in world was done in 1954. The 1st Organ transplant in India was done in 1965 in King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. The Organ transplanted was Kidney. I have been grateful for being part of 2 Kidney transplants and 1 Liver transplant till now. My 1st Transplant experience as Anaesthesiologist was with Kidney Transplant. The same evening was my engagement. I didn't want to miss the opportunity of being a part of Transplant unit and obviously had to attend my own engagement. So I requested our Transplant Unit Professor to post me on the Donor's side which would get over early. Once the kidney is removed from the donor,it is bathed in special solutions to prepare it for transplant. In the meantime, in another operation theatre,the recepient side is prepared for the bed for new ...