Better Than Anywhere Else

India launched a very important ORGAN DONATION and TRANSPLANT programme on national level under the aegis of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India…..
By Dr R K Tuli

The importance of this programme is based on the medical belief that organ transplant is essentially the only treatment for end stage failure of kidney, liver and heart, or tissue replacement in case of cornea and heart valves damage, etc. Each organ transplant requires either donation by a blood related donor or a tissue matching cadaver. There is a serious shortage on both of these counts worldwide. After an aggressive national campaign for one year we could record a mere 700 cadaver donations in last one year!
Kidney transplantation is by far the most frequently carried out organ transplant globally. NOTTO estimates the need for 250,000 Kidney; besides100,000 Cornea; 80,000 Liver and 50,000 Heart transplants, respectively, in the country every year. The possibility to meet this requirement in near future appears highly insurmountable if we observe the global history of organ and tissue transplantation over the past 25 years. Its success lies on the underlying dictum, “If we are prepared to receive a transplant should we need one, then we should be ready to give.”

LIMITATIONS OF AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY: The ground reality is very different if we are to learn from the National Programme for Control of Blindness launched since 1976, which deals with much easier, simpler, cheaper and easily reversible ‘Errors of Refraction’ correctable by providing mere glasses; and ‘Cataract’ in which vision can be restored by a simple five minute surgery at a very small cost. But, unfortunately, the number of blind persons in India has increased from 12 million 10 years ago, to currently over 18 million – showing an increase of 50% more in just the last decade.
On ‘Cornea Transplant’, the largest eye bank in Asia at LV Prasad Eye Institute of Hyderabad’s International Eye Bank leads the record in whole world to have achieved in past 25 years to harvest over 36,000 donor corneas, and transplanted a mere 20,000 of them to needy patients.
The projected need of 250,000 kidney transplants every year appears utopian when theIndian transplant registry reveals the total number of such transplants carried out in our country in last 25 years (1991 to 2015)is just 20,952. The maximum number of kidney transplants carried out in the whole country was about 3000 last year. No current figures are available on actual number of liver or heart transplants, etc., from the registry.
Even in the USA, where 800,000 people suffer from NYHA Class IV advance heart failure, only 2000 transplants could be conducted in the whole country last year, which is out of the figure of 3500 heart transplants carried out in the whole world.
We should take appropriate stock of limitations of the scope of any such programme based exclusively on sophisticated modern surgery and medical care, and also for simple lack of its accessibility, availability and affordability. We have to seriously think and plan right at this stage to overcome challenges of this very important national organ and tissue transplant campaign. At this stage, in comparison, we appear to be more realistic in our aspiration to reach the mars, even though at the expense of hunger, backwardness, illiteracy and poor health of the people in our country.
OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to explore simple, accessible, affordable, at the same time easily reproducible lessons learnt from ‘EUREKA’ stories of a few which inspire us to explore further so that we can complement the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) vital project to save lives of those suffering from irreversible organ damage and, also, overcome its inherent shortcomings. These stories teach us that the need for organs transplant can be minimised by successful reversal of damage of various organs by an optimum synergy of drug-free modalities of recognised systems of health, termed Holistic Medicine, and go a long way to achieve ‘Health For All’ in the country. The greatest advantage is that this therapy does not involve any donor, or the sophisticated surgical technology and expensive medication available only to the exclusive at a few institutions in the country.

EUREKA-1
Dr. Deepak Chandra is a 1964 batch alumnus of Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. He is a very popular Family Physician in Kanpur. His Clinic was shut down for three years during his sickness, but it bounced back to its old glory as soon as he resumed work in year 1998, after regaining his health. He continues to enjoy drug-free wellness to live life fully nearly 20 years after recovery. His status of health, today, is certainly a record better than any Liver Transplant recipient anywhere in the world!
CELEBRATING his 70th Birthday with the Blessed Family recently
Dr. Deepak Chandra of Kanpur writes, “I’ve been given a SECOND LIFE by Holistic Medicine therapy! In the year 1997, I had slipped into Hepatic Coma & Total Renal Shut Down following Chronic Progressive Multi-Virus Hepatitis. The attending specialists at AIIMS gave up on me and I was discharged from the ICU! At this critical stage my family sought the services of the renowned Holistic Medicine Physician Dr. R.K. Tuli. Due to his sincere and vigorous support I gradually improved in my health and finally regained normal kidney and liver functions. What’s amazing is that the universally incurable Hepatitis ‘B’&‘C’ antigens and the entire virus load got eliminated from my body. At the end of one year of Holistic Medicine therapy, my health had bounced back to be better than in previous ten years. I was able to resume my medical practice which was shut down due to my sickness. I have maintained good health ever since, and I find myself fully healthy. Also, all my medical parameters including virus-free status have continuously maintained within normal limits ever since.”

EUREKA-2
Manoj Sohi from Haridwar District endorses, “I had been suffering from uncontrolled blood pressure leading to kidney problem (HTN + CKD – ESRD + Renal Lithias is + Anemia) with poor health, from last one year. The doctors told me for Dialysis and advised Kidney Transplant in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. But, since I came to Dr. Tuli, it was a great experience. My mental, physical and emotional health started improving immediately, the blood pressure was controlled, and by3-4 months of treatment at this “SOHAM” Clinic, my water retention is all gone, my hemoglobin has improved from 7.2 to 12.0 gms%, as the kidney functions have improved a lot. I feel proud to share that my total health has improved from a grade of 2/10 to 10/10, now. Dr. Tuli is a God for me.”

EUREKA – 3
Colonel B. K. Chathli joined 31st Course of Indian Military Academy in the year 1963, and was Commissioned into the premium GORKHA RIFLES. He rendered exemplary service in both the 1965 & 1971 wars, and always volunteered to serve upfront in the most challenging terrains throughout his career to earn highest accolades and respect from all. Having recovered his health fully, at the age of 73 years, he continues to serve the society with equal zeal in various capacities.

COLONEL BALDEV KRISHAN CHATHLI AT THE PEAK OF HIS GLORY
The decorated veteran Colonel B.K. Chathli of Greater NOIDA likes to share, “In the year 2004, I was diagnosed to suffer from Ch. Renal Failure-ESRD. In 2005, I was started on dialysis three times in a week. Doctors told my daughter that I need Kidney Transplant. But, her boss Ms. Prema Sagar recommended that I consult Dr. Tuli at the “SOHAM” clinic. With great suspicion and reservation, making sure that the holistic therapy in no way interfered with my ongoing medical treatment, I started it here. Today, 11 years later and at the age of 76 years, as I visit this clinic for my wife’s treatment, I feel proud in writing that with his ‘HEALING TOUCH’ I had got fully CURED in nearly four months. Annual medical check-up confirm that both my kidneys have remained fully functional, and I’ve lived my life fully ever since. I pray to God for Dr. Tuli’s greater success to cure all others like me.”
Dr. Tuli highlights that it’s a highly reproducible phenomenon, as elucidated and endorsed by other beneficiaries of this therapy, thus qualifying need for its scientific validation. The management of each patient has been much simpler, easier, healthier, at a fraction of cost, and displays certainly far superior and lasting results restoring highest ‘quality of life’ compared to progressive morbidity and eventual mortality in conventional medical man

WHAT’S HOLISTIC MEDICINE: Holistic Medicine is the wholesome approach to Health where each individual is treated as a whole ‘Body, Mind & Spirit’ by a synergy of the evidence based ‘science’ of modern medicine with the complementary and highly reproducible time honoured ‘art’ of drug-free modalities of the various officially recognised alternate or traditional systems of health to restore the disturbed ‘internal milieu’ of the individual to initiate one’s own natural inherent healing that leads to elimination of all sickness and to restore positive health and total wellness.
Holistic Medicine = Modern Medicine + Alternate* Medicine (Alternate* = Traditional Indian, Chinese &NewAge Medicine)
[Conservative Medicine + Life-Style & Stress Management + Ashtanga Yoga + Acupuncture-Reflexology + Reiki-Pranic Healing-Chakra Balancing +Panchakarma-Detoxification + Counseling-Hypnotherapy- PLRT + Regenerative Medicine]

CONCLUSION: Let’s be closer to ground reality and prepare better in projecting this huge and very noble programme, lest it meet the fate of WHO-UNICEF sponsored global programme “Health For All By 2000 A.D.”
Dr. R. K.Tuli, the specialist in Holistic Medicine and a global pioneer in promoting this all inclusive and comprehensive approach to health states, “If we were to learn a lesson and be wise, we should concurrently expand our vision and be guided by our National Health Policy as well as the Prime Minister’s SKILL INDIA programme, to complement conventional medical care with the easily accessible simple potential of the all inclusive integrated, non-conflicting drug-free modalities of recognised traditional or complementary alternate systems of health, termed Holistic Medicine.”
Dr. Tuli concludes, “It’s been found to be very efficient to arrest and help in reversal of the damage to sick organs even in end-stage organ disease. Therefore, we must tap its potential for reversal, restoration and rejuvenation of sick persons. It can significantly reduce the gap in need of essential transplants. We may have limited example of its scope at this stage, but it has the potential of a “eureka” possibility through large scale scientific studies to make a unique global beginning to ensure “HEALTH FOR ALL.”

(The author is Visiting Professor: Indira Gandhi Technological And Medical Sciences University And Chief Consultant Holistic Medicine “SOHAM” clinic, New Delhi)