Abstract

Objective: People with nonfunctioning organs waiting for donation are increasing but provision of viable organs is not meeting the need. As many of the Pakistanis are poor who sell their organs for money. This has led to illegal transplants. Now a legal way has been adopted by the Government to prevent this illegal trafficking of human organs. This study was carried out to know the willingness of peoples about organs donation.
 Material Methods: From general population by convenience nonprobability method 130 subjects both males and females of age 18 years and above were requested to answer the questionnaire. Results: 130 subjects included 102 males and 28 females.59.8% males 32.1% females were willing for organ donation. 55.26% of educated and 31.25% of uneducated were willing for organ donation. Conclusion: To prevent illegal donation of organs and to alleviate present level of organ donation it is pertinent to improve health education levels in general people0.

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