Health specialists and doctors called for awareness drive on cadaver organ donation as India was suffering from an acute shortage of organs for transplantation.
Speaking at the National Organ Donation Day here on Thursday, August 3, experts pointed out that an estimated one million people suffer from end-stage organ failure but only about 3,500 transplants are performed in the country annually.
The event was organised by Apollo BGS Hospital and the doctors said that at least 15 patients die every day waiting for organs while every 10 minutes a new name is added to the waiting list.
