World Organ Donation Day 2025 - August 13
August 16 , 2025
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- The day aims to raise awareness, honor donors, and encourage people to register as organ donors to bridge the supply-demand gap.
- It commemorates the first living donor organ transplant in 1954, when Ronald Lee Herrick donated a kidney to his twin brother.
- The 2025 theme is “Answering the Call”.
- In India, National Organ Day was initially observed on November 27, starting in 2010.
- Since 2023, it has been marked on August 3 to commemorate India’s first successful deceased-donor heart transplant in 1994.
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