chandigarh on successful completion of two years of services an organ donation camp was organized at kidney care centre in panchkula a team from rotto pgi chandigarh was also present at the venue to motivate people for the noble cause a total of 122 people pledged their organs at the event the kidney care centre established two years ago under the leadership of dr ajay goyal is first of its kind facility where treatment of all types of kidney diseases including advanced kidney failure hemodialysis and kidney transplant is provided by the team of doctors and paramedic staff dr ajay goyal dm nephrology founder and director of kidney care centre said more than 5 lakh people die in india every year due to non availability of organs out of 2 lakh people requiring kidney transplant only a few thousand get it rest of the patients either stay on dialysis or lose their lives due to kidney failure in india almost 15 lakh people suffer brain death every year each person can save upto 8 lives by donating organs after brain death so organs from such people who die with healthy orgnas can be retrieved and transplanted to save many livespeople who pledged their organs were issued donor cards by notto a government organization which regulates the organ retrieval and allocation in indiadr goyal further said on the occasion of our centres third foundation day we decided to celebrate in a unique way by working towards a social cause and motivate people to pledge their organs to save lives