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Supreme Court Orders Uniform National Organ Transplant Policy, Registry and Public-Hospital Plan

The directions target longstanding inequities in access to organs across states.

The Supreme Court told the Centre and the NOTTO to come out with a five-year plan to ensure organ transplantation facilities are made available in public hospitals in all states. (Sanchit Khanna/HT File Photo)
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SC asks Centre to frame national policy, uniform rules on organ transplantation
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Overview

  • The Court directed NOTTO to set uniform patient registration and allocation criteria and to operate a national registry and web portal ensuring equal opportunity regardless of gender, class or region.
  • The Union and NOTTO must produce a five-year plan to equip public hospitals in every state to perform transplants.
  • States were told to adopt the 2011 THOTA amendments and 2014 rules without delay, with Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Manipur named, and to enforce mandatory hospital reporting to the national registry.
  • The Union was instructed to establish State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisations in Manipur, Nagaland, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.
  • Donor safeguards were ordered through live-donor welfare guidelines and amendments to death forms to record brain death and whether donation was offered, with the bench also flagging reports of organised crime in organ procurement.