Karnataka: On the verge of getting a masters degree in learning surgeries, medical treatment, experiment medicine and other teaching exercises, millions of animals are abused, killed across the globe. But, here is a doctor in Belagavi district of Karnataka state in India who has founded a foundation which encourages more than hundred people to donate their body after death for the purpose of medical studies.
According to the reports of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), An estimated 20 million animals are abused each year in the US alone for cruel, archaic teaching exercises, despite the existence of superior non-animal teaching tools. Roughly half of them are killed and used for classroom dissection; others are tormented while they’re still alive in classroom biology and psychology experiments and cut apart in medical training drills.
The reports says that Biological supply houses breed animals such as mice, rats, and rabbits for medical study purposes while millions of frogs are captured in their natural habitats every year for dissection and experimentation.
When it is a practice in most of the medical colleges, here is a doctor in Belagavi district Dr Mahantesh Ramannavar who has started a foundation which accepts the body donation of humans after their death. Giving the due respect as per the religious beliefs of the respective community, Dr Ramanavar collects the body donation and provides them to the various medical colleges that are in need of a body to teach the students on different topics of anatomy.
Assistant professor at KLE’s BMK Ayurveda medical college, Dr Mahantesh Ramannavar of Belagavi through his Bailhongal based Ramannavar foundation has worked to motivate more then 2500 people to donate the their bodies after death for the study purpose to various medical colleges in Karnataka and other neighbouring states. Presently, we have registered about 318 people for the body donation and more people joining hands to donate their bodies after death for this noble cause.
‘I was able to motivate and win the trust of more people to join this cause, When I myself donated the body. My entire family members have registered their names to donate the body after death. Moreover, when I dissected the body of my own father to teach the medical students in the year 2010, Many people inspired and registered their names. I feel that a dead body can save another live animal by donating their body’ said Dr Ramannavar who is also working to encourage families of the brain dead patients for organ donation.
With inputs from PETA,
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