Director of Kashmir’s territory care hospital, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Dr. Ashraf Ganai, pledged to donate his organs on Saturday.
He made this pledge today during an event at the hospital on Organ Donation Day organised by the Kidney Transplant Unit of the hospital.
He lauded the organising committee for conducting the awareness campaign and added these programs are important to sensitise the general public.
He said SKIMS will start up a liver transplant program for which the plan is being worked out and other transplants will also be scaled up, he added.
On the occasion, the noted legal, religious and social experts discussed in detail the various perspectives on organ donation.
Retired Justice Bashir A Kirmani made a lucid speech and said the laws are facilitating and supportive of the organ donation initiatives; however, he said the issue needs to be understood in a wider social & religious context to support this noble cause.
He stressed that there is a need to sensitise the people, to evolve a support system with a wider mechanism and individual efforts for greater motivation.
The religious scholars, including Maulana Mufti Nazir A Qasmi, Aga Syed Mudasir Hasan Rizvi, and Navtej Singh Sikh community leader, while deliberating on the subject, unanimously underscored the importance of organ donation and said that organ donation is permitted under law, and the stand of all religions is clear on organ donation as it is a noble cause serving humanity, a spokesperson for SKIMS said.
Organising Chairman & HOD Urology, and Head Kidney Transplant Unit Prof. Arif Hamid, welcomed the guests and all the participants and said that these programs go a long way to create much needed awareness about organ donation. He said today’s program is critical in highlighting the role of organ donation in saving multiple lives.
