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Detailed explanation-1: -On the occasion of Indian Organ Donation Day, Rajasthan Chief Minister Shri Ashok Gehlot today inaugurated Angdata Smarak in the state’s capital, which is the first of its kind memorial dedicated to organ donors in the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -India’s first liver transplant happened on November 6, 1998 by Dr. A.S. Soin and Dr. Rajashekar on 42-year-old Bharat Bhushan at Delhi’s Apollo Hospital. Bhushan was terminally ill and a corporate executive was declared brain-dead, whose liver was donated.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 27th November, 2020 in the occasion of 11th National Organ Donation Day celebration at Jaipur, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot inaugurated virtually the first of its kind “Organ Donor Memorial” in the country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first-ever organ donation was done in 1954 when Ronald Lee Herrick donated a kidney to his identical twin brother. Doctor Joseph Murray conducted the procedure for which he has also won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for advances in organ transplantation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The beginning In 1954, the kidney was the first human organ to be transplanted successfully. Liver, heart and pancreas transplants were successfully performed by the late 1960s, while lung and intestinal organ transplant procedures were begun in the 1980s.