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Two Indian women donated organs of their brain-dead husbands over the weekend, helping 11 seriously ill patients. Both donations were within a few hours of each other-one around 11pm on January 5 and another around 2am on January 6.
In the first case, a senior nurse from Hinduja hospital's dialysis department donated the kidneys, liver and corneas of her 58-year-old husband who suffered a massive stroke. The second organ donation took place at Fortis Hospital, Mulund, where the mother of a five-year-old boy donated the kidneys, liver, corneas and skin of her 36-year-old husband who was brain-dead after meeting with an accident on the Eastern Express Highway
A latest research shows that Women are more generous organ donors, as compared to men This year, on World Kidney Day on Thursday, healthcare workers in city are planning programmes to felicitate women - not just because it is also Women's Day, but also because women have been rated to be more altruistic as organ donors than men.
Women are more likely to be living organ donors than men, and one explanation is that they may be more vulnerable to subtle pressures.Fathers, sons, brothers, or other male family members are all less likely to donate than their female counterparts, and a new report has called for the predominance of women donors to be investigated urgently.according to latest report from BMJ
"The women in a family are very often the first to offer to donate an organ. If the patient is a child, the donors are usually the mother. Wives are usually the donors when men need a transplant," said Dr P Sounderajan, chief of nephrology, Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre, which is organizing a programme to felicitate women donors on Thursday.