To promote and encourage voluntary Organ Donation in the State, an annual award namely "SURAJ AWARD" was instituted by Health & Family Welfare Department in the memory of Late Suraj Behera, whose parents voluntarily donated the organs of their brain-dead son to save lives of other people.
The organ donors' families are also being given a cash award of Rs 5.00 Lakh each from CMRF, and the families of organ donors from the State are being felicitated every year on the occasion of World Organ Donation Day (13th August).
In addition to the above, Odisha Government is pleased to decide that the last rites of organ donors of Heart, Kidneys, Liver, Pancreas, Lungs and Intestines will be conducted with full State Honours during the funeral.
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