Alcoholic liver disease has increased at an alarming rate: Dr. Sarbeswar Sahariah

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MANGALDAI: Internationally acclaimed organ transplant surgeon and ‘Padmashri’ award recipient Dr. Sarbeswar Sahariah has cautioned the younger generation of making habit of taking alcohol at the risk of developing deadly disease of alcoholic liver disorder which will lead to loss of their lives. “Alcoholic liver disease has increased at an alarming rate.

According to WHO, it has turned out to be the tenth most common cause of death in India,” said Dr Sahariah while delivering his speech on the topic “Living with organ failure” as a popular talk organized by the Institutional Level Bio-Tech (ILBT) Hub of Mangaldai College with support from voluntary organizations ‘North East Care Foundation’ of Guwahati and ‘Crystal Vision’ of Mangaldai at the science gallery of Mangaldai College on Thursday .

Discussing on the major causes of organ failure, Dr Sahariah further observed that in India due to the coming down of the average age of taking alcohol to 16 years, it has been affecting people mostly in the age group of 30 to 40 years of age. “This disease is likely to affect every five Indians in days to come,” said Dr. Saharia while giving an alarm on the scenario of near future.

Dr Sahariah an eminent surgeon and scholar in the field of organ transplantation who has got nearly 3500 successful organ transplantation to his credit, in his nearly 45 minutes power point presentation dwelt at length on various issues related to the causes of organ failure, measures of preventing organ failure, advanced modern techniques of medical science for organ failure cases, the statistics showing the world scenario of organ donation, legal provisions dealing with organ donation, the difference between a cardiac death and a brain death and the importance of mass public awareness of brain death (cadaver) organ donation.

Making an ardent appeal to the students and the teachers community present in the gallery to become the role model in motivating the society, Dr Sahariah said, “A single cadaver donor can save eight dying persons at a time.” The seminar which ended with the vote of thanks from Assistant Professor Dr. Seemajyoti was anchored by Coordinator of ILBT-Hub Dr. Pratibha Deka.

Earlier principal of the college, Dr. Khagendra Kr. Nath offered the welcome address and also accorded a warm felicitation to Dr Sahariah- the ‘Worthy Son of Darrang’ in a traditional way with ‘phulam Bihuwan’ and a ‘Xarai.’ The seminar was attended by nearly two hundred students besides faculty members, local NGO workers and media persons.

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