In order to increase the number of organ donations, the government has launched a ‘national programme for the promotion of organ transplantation’ to improve organ availability.
Your driving licence and other important documents that you carry in your purse may soon reflect your willingness to donate organs.
In order to increase the number of organ donations, the government has launched a ‘national programme for the promotion of organ transplantation’ to improve organ availability by promoting organ donations.
This will also organise a system of organ procurement and distribution for transplantation, establish new transplant facilities and strengthen existing units and to train required manpower.
Under the programme, training would be imparted to required manpower in the sector, he said. “Plans are afoot to include the willingness for organ donation into driving licences and a nationwide organ donation card and registry will be launched. A pledge card for organ donation has also been made,” union health and family welfare minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday.
He said experts will dwell upon means to reduce the cost factor of organ transplantation as a treatment protocol so that more patients are able to derive benefits from such techniques. “I hope that organ donation and transplantation can change the destiny of millions in need of organs,” Azad said while pointing out the acute shortage of organs in India.
According to government estimates, around 10 lakh Indians are suffering from corneal blindness and awaiting corneal transplantation. But against the requirement of 80,000 to 1,00,000 corneas per year only 38,000 eyes are collected annually.
Similarly, about 1,50,000 people are diagnosed with kidney failure every year, for whom the only way out is an organ transplant. But only about 5,000 of these patients are able to get kidneys for transplantation.
The minister said that a comprehensive ‘Transplantation of Human Organs Act’ is now under consideration in the Parliament which would address concerns about optimum utilisation of harvested organs and provision for networking all organ retrieval and transplant centres. He added that very stiff penalties have been proposed for unethical practices and “the proposed amendments have found wide acceptance in our Parliament and would soon be enacted into a law.”
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