Organ Donation and Transplant Trend in Sialkot

Abstract

Objective: Objective of the study was to take information about trend of organ donation in general public of
Sialkot and enlisting the names of people who would consent to donate organ.
Material and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study and was carried out at Sialkot Medical College.
Through convenient sampling method, data was collected from 400 people of both sexes above 18 years of
age. Study duration was 2 months i.e . 5.8.23 to 5.10.23. The collected data was analyzed and tabulated.
Results: 56.5 % agreed to support the organ donation. Among these 54.8 % agreed to donate during life.
Among these, for liver donation 20.3% agreed followed by kidney donation13.8 % .
Conclusion: General public of Sialkot has got much information about organ donation and transplantation.
Females are more interested to donate organs as compared to males. Most of them agreed to donate within
family.
Keywords: Donation, transplantation, liver, kidney, cornea.