Due to the epidemic, there was a massive decline in organ transplants – research

Studies on organ transplantation: Not only has the impact of corona infection taken on epidemic proportions, it has caused many challenges for physicians as well as patients with other diseases. Corona, for example, has had a significant impact on surgery related to other diseases. According to a study, the number of organ transplants has decreased by 1 percent in 2020 compared to the previous year. According to a report in the Daily Jagran, a study published in the British medical journal Lancet Public Health revealed this information.

A Paris-based research team analyzed organ transplant data from 22 countries and found that in some countries organ transplants were less than 90 percent.

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The biggest decline, which was seen in almost all countries, was in the case of kidney transplants. Researchers claim that patients have lost 48,000 years of life due to this lack of organ transplants. Meaning, if these organs were transplanted, the total number added to the lives of all these patients would be 48,000 years.

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The number of organ donors in India has also come down drastically due to corona. India has fewer organ donors than Western countries and some Asian countries. Find out now how much organ donation is needed in India, according to the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization, five lakh people in India need organ transplants every year, but here the rate of organ donors after death is 0.34 per 10 lakh, which is the lowest in the world. The total rate of organ donation for the living and the dead is only 0.52 per 10 lakhs.

According to the report, after seeing 100 cases of Covid-1 (Covid-1) infection in each country, the researchers looked at the number of organ transplants. This was compared to the organ he had transplanted the previous year. A similar trend has been observed in all these countries.