Ahmedabad: Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS) of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) hosted an event on Friday to honour women organ donors and certain other recipients to promote World Kidney Day.
The session was led by Professor Rajesh Chandwani, chairperson of CMHS with Dr Manoj Gumber, consultant nephrologist and transplant physician. Thirty female donors and 30 recipients were also given mementos by IIM-A director, Professor Errol D’Souza.
Speaking on the occasion, one of the kidney donors, Dr Rekha Patsariya, said, “In 2011, my husband was diagnosed with a kidney-related disease and we were left with only two options of dialysis and kidney transplant. I was initially scared with the word transplant but later realized that the transplant was the only option to save my husband’s life. With effective counselling from doctors, I decided to donate my kidney to my husband and now he is leading a healthy life.”
A kidney recipient, Pooja Dhamecha, said that she had suffered kidney failure in 2010 but due to a cadaver donation, she could save her life. tnn
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