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Snehlata Chowdhary

Nation's Inspiration for Organ Donation

The greatest feeling
behind donating organs is the
realisation that you are saving
someone’s life even after leaving
this earth. People who wait for
organs know how difficult it is
to pass each moment until an
organ or cadaver donor is found.
In such a situation, an organ
donor is no less than a God for
the patients. In his recent 'Mann
ki Baat', Prime Minister talked save many lives. We donated her
about Snehlata Chowdhary, a heart, her kidneys, and her liver.
resident of Jharkhand, whose The heart has been transplanted
heart, kidney, and liver saved to a 14-year-old child who hails
many lives. from Ghaziabad. Even though
Our Doordarshan team we don’t know the people who
talked to Abhijit Chowdhary, the received her organs, we know
son of Snehlata Chowdhary, that she is alive somewhere in
to know more about this some form.
inspirational decision of the It was my dream to talk
family. to the Prime Minister one day,
“My mother was highly and it could become possible
involved in social activities, and only because of my mother’s
that was the reason why we blessings.
took the decision to donate her I believe, organ donation is
organs once she left us. She not a mere act; it is a thought
also wanted the same. There that coincides with the thought
were many myths that came of New India. The youth of our
our way while we were deciding nation need to know that there is
to donate her organs. Myths like no other donation as noble and
she will not attain salvation. But as worthy as this.”
we kept all our feelings aside
and thought that if we do not
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donate her organs, they will
to know more about
eventually be burned. Rather, by
Snehlata Chowdhary.
donating them, we were able to
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