AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS WHOLE BODY AND ORGAN DONATION
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https://doi.org/10.17720/spvs4a47Abstract
Organ donation and transplantation allows a deceased or living donor to give life to another.Surgeons remove a healthy organ from a donor and transfer it to someone in need. The organs that can be transplanted include the liver, kidney, heart, lungs etc. In our study we evaluated the awareness and attitude of medical fraternity towards organ and whole body donation to know opinion regarding whole body and organ donation, reasons behind willingness and unwillingness to donate organs and whole body, motivating factors for donation, reasons for not filling up the pledge form if willing to donate among students of medical school
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