You don’t need to be a hero to save a life. All you need is a large heart and compassion.
There are thousands of Indians suffering today, waiting desperately for an organ. For instance, every year over 100,000 people are diagnosed with kidney failure who need urgent transplants, but due, mainly, to non-availability of organs only 2,500 kidney transplants are done. Likewise there are blind people needing eyes, heart patients unable to lead normal lives and patients waiting for livers and pancreas.
Everyday their loved ones watch helplessly as they suffer and the family finances dwindle. Everyday they pray for one thing. “Please God, give us a donor”. You can be that donor. There may come a time in our lives, when a situation arises – which leaves us brain dead, with no hope of recovery. If we have signed on as an organ donor then, our organs, corneas (eyes) liver, kidneys, heart and pancreas can be harvested and donated.