Generation Change: Tackling taboos around organ donation

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Babita Sharma talks to young people who are trying to save lives by tackling taboos around organ donation in countries including India and the UK. She also speaks to Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth, who discusses his work on kidney donation.

Generation Change is a co-production of the BBC and Nobel Prize Outreach

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0:00.0	the first thing that I had asked when I woke up,
0:02.2	let's you know, just how was my mom?
0:03.9	Is she okay? Did she make it?
0:05.4	I mean, at that point, I wasn't really worried
0:07.9	about myself anymore.
0:08.9	I was just kind of focused on getting through
0:10.6	the pain that I was feeling at that moment.
0:14.2	Aliana DeVesa was just a teenager
0:16.8	when she had an operation to save her mom's life.
0:19.6	Hearing everybody had made it,
0:21.7	I was able to kind of breathe again.
0:23.9	I had just that feeling of relief that I hadn't felt
0:27.2	in such a long time because I was so worried
0:29.9	about everybody else.
0:33.1	When Aliana says everyone else,
0:35.1	she's not just talking about herself and her mom.
0:38.1	Aliana had organized an organ swap,
0:40.8	so that on the same day,
0:42.2	she and her mom were being operated
0:43.8	on in San Francisco, California.
0:46.0	Two sisters were also having operations.
0:49.9	One of Aliana's organs would go to one of the sisters
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