Srinagar, Nov. 7 -- - As medical reports and researches are showing a stark spike in lifestyle disorders rendering vitals redundant, a demand for organ banking has gained momentum in the valley with medicos campaigning for the critical healthcare facility and awareness among people.

"We still lack organ-retrieval units here. If someone donates an organ, it needs to be preserved," says Dr. Nisar ul Hassan, President Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK). "Even top hospitals like SKIMS and SMHS lack that facility. And besides Kidney-transplantation, there's no other solid-organ transplantation that happens in Kashmir."

Kashmir's appetite for organs is not unknown. Back in the day when the 2016 crisis damaged eyes in the region, there was a ma...