Langol old age home inmates pledge to donate organs
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, January 27 2024:
After 12 inmates, four more inmates of Old Age Home, Langol have pledged to donate their organs to JNIMS.
The inmates made the pledge in a simple function held at Old Age Home, Langol on Saturday where JNIMS director professor L Deben and his family members donated edible items and blankets to the home.
Speaking at the event, professor L Deben said that 12 inmates of the home had earlier pledged to donate their organs to JNIMS so that medical students could utilise their bodies for educational purposes.
The home has so far handed over bodies of four of the 12 inmates to JNIMS while four more inmates have committed to donate their organs as per rules and regulations to the hospital, professor Deben said, adding that the step taken by the old age home is laudable.
According to professor L Deben, JNIMS used to procure human bodies for utilisation by medical students until recently from big cities like Kolkata and Mumbai by spending huge expenditure but the hospital is now able to procure such bodies without spending any money.
He also lauded the role played by the old age home in sheltering and taking care of elderly people who were left unattended and forced out from their homes by their own children.
Old Age Home, Langol proprietor Mangi, who also attended the simple function, said the home has been running without any financial or material support from the government since its establishment but with donation and support from kind-hearted individuals.
JNIMS director L Deben has been extending support to the home since the past few years and he is still continuing the same, he said.
Later, JNIMS director professor L Deben and his family members donated edible items and blankets to inmates of the home in memory of his late father.