As many as 459 persons in the Mangaluru Zone, comprising Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Chikkamagaluru, Davangere, Shivamogga districts, were waiting for organs, said Dakshina Kannada District Health and Family Welfare Officer H.R. Thimmaiah in Mangaluru on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters about the organ donation day being celebrated in Mangaluru on August 1, Dr. Thimmaiah said of the 459 waitlisted in the portal of Jeevasarthakathe Human Organs Transplantation programme, 446 want kidneys and 13 need a liver.
