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World Organ Donation Day 2023 - August 13
August 16 , 2023
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- The day aims to raise awareness about the importance of organ donation and transplantation.
- It encourages people to pledge to donate their organs and tissues after death to save lives and improve the quality of life for those in need.
- This day was first observed in 2005.
- The first organ donation was performed in 1954, when Ronald Lee Herrick donated his kidney to his twin brother.
- The first organ donor in India is widely recognized as Lalitha Raghuram.
- In 1994, she became the first recorded living organ donor in the country when she donated a kidney to her husband.
- Theme for 2023 is “Step up to volunteer; we need more organ donors to fill the lacunae”.
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