World Organ Donation Day celebrated on 13th August
Every year 13 August is celebrated as World Organ Donation Day across the world. This day is celebrated with the aim of raising awareness about organ donation.
Apart from this, “National Organ Donation Day” is celebrated on 27 November every year in India. This day is celebrated to dispel the myths of organ donation and to encourage people to donate their healthy organs after death, this can save more lives.
Its aim is to help people realize that many people lose their lives due to unavailability of healthy organs.
Thus voluntarily donating your healthy organs can change the lives of many people.
The first temporarily successful transplant of a human kidney was performed by Jean Hamburger in Paris in 1953. A kidney was transplanted from a mother to a
16-year-old child. However, the first long-term successful kidney transplant was performed in the US in 1954. This successful transplant was performed by Dr. Joseph Murray. For this, the doctor received the "Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine" in the year 1990.