Slight rise in cadaveric organ donations

But the number is still way below pre-COVID-19 days

Although cadaveric organ donations had almost come to a halt during the first year of the pandemic in 2020, there is a slight improvement this year. However, the number of donations are still way below those that happened during the pre-COVID-19 days. While over 5,000 patients are waiting for various organ transplants in Karnataka, there have been hardly 61 cadaveric donations since last year. This is apart from one skin donation. Jeevasarthakathe, the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO), which is the nodal agency that facilitates cadaver organ donations, recorded 35 donations in 2020, retrieving 100 organs, while the State’s only skin bank in Victoria Hospital got just one donation. This year, 26 cadaveric donations have been recorded retrieving 65 organs so far.