jaipur the state government on wednesday stressed on the need for encouraging cadaver donation and organ transplants at the sawai man singh sms hospital health minister rajendra rathore expressed the need for spreading awareness on organ donation so that lives could be saved speaking at a workshop on organ donation organized by the jaipur citizen forum and the mohan foundation at the sms medical college rathore said if there is a need for introducing a separate policy on organ donation the state government will do the needful while pointing out the necessity of organ donation rathore said efforts are being made to introduce facilities for heart lung pancreas and liver transplants in the sms hospital the hospital has facilities for kidney cornea and bone marrow transplants the government will put in efforts to introduce more facilities for different organ transplants in the hospital he said rathore highlighted that lots of myths are associated with organ donation hence there is a need for creating more awareness about organ donation for brain dead patients their brains stop working and considered technically dead but other organs continue to be healthy and such organs could be donated to needy patients with the consent of their relatives during the workshop many relatives of the brain dead patients who donated the organs of their brain dead relatives were present the relatives said their kin become brain dead after accidents or diseases in the state there is no policy for cadaver donation set into motion to the process for retrieving various organs from braindead patients and the organs are transplanted to the needy in july 2013 the sms hospital tried to give importance to cadaver donation and held meetings to discuss how such donations could be encouraged and to prepare the infrastructure which is essential for retrieval of organs besides a film on brain death was also shown to the audience to make them aware about cadaver donation the resource persons threw light on the shortage of organs due to which patients who are young and could live a healthy life were suffering