Every day, hundreds and thousands of patients wait patiently for organ donors to get a new lease of life and donations from brain-stem death patients can actually be the answer to address the issue. According to the data shared by the Maharashtra government, in the last seven months, as many as 93 brain-stem death (BSD) donors have donated their organs.

From January 1 to July 16, 2019, hospitals across the state have retrieved 149 kidneys, 83 liver, 10 lungs, 24 hearts and three pancreas from these patients. Along with that, the government authority has recorded 128 skin donors, 79 cornea donors along with two bone donors in the state.