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 Shatayu is an NGO and an initiative by the Govindbhai C. Patel Foundation, which is supported by Ganesh Housing Corporation Limited. Its main aim is to increase awareness about organ donation in India, and broaden the mind-set of people towards the gift of life. Founded in the year 2009, the low rate of organ donations in the country had inspired this NGO to try their best to educate people about this cause.
Today, Gujarat is one of the leading states in India in organ donations. The NGO has been successful in spreading the importance of pledging organs for donation after death. They have been able to help with several organ donations and transplants. While eye donations continue to happen on a regular basis, they have also been involved in kidney, liver, heart transplants and in entire body donations. Apart from this, Shatayu entered the Limca Book of Records for organizing the largest motorbike rally in the country to create awareness and has also published India's first comic book on donating organs.
Over time, Shatayu has built effective, long term relationships with hospitals, where organ and tissue donation opportunities occur through the Hospital Contact Program. Working with hospital administrators, nursing staff, physicians and transplant surgeons, Shatayu's team conducts awareness talks and promotes organ donations by putting up posters and brochures in hospitals as well as by educating the nursing and the ICU staff. Further, their training workshops for Transplant Coordinators have helped to train and enable nurses and the ICU staff to effectively counsel grief stricken families of brain dead patients. Shatayu's team has also been successful in bringing together various hospitals to come forward and participate in their organ donation awareness program.
Please visit their official website http://www.shatayu.org.in/, for more information.
For their efforts in creating awareness for donating organs, Shatayu deserves a Standing Ovation!
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