New Delhi: Patients and relatives of the deceased donors on the waiting lists of organs will gain a priority status of recipients, while the Ministry of Health takes steps to support gifts and correct gender imbalances among recipients.
Both provisions are part of a 10 -point counseling issued by the National Organization for Organ Transplantation and Tissue (notto) to increase the gift and transplantation of organs in the country. Notto was established under the General Directorate of the Health Services of the Ministry of Health.
The Objective is “Make Provision to Give Additional Points in the Allocation Criteria for Female Patients in the Waiting List for Deceased Donor Transplants, So As to Address Gender Disparity” and To ”Make Provision that and Near-Relative May be given priority, ”Dr Anil Kumar, Director of Notto, Said in A Letter DataD 2 August to the States and Union Territories.
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The provision on the provision of other points to patients is a direct response to gender differences in the allocation organs. Moreover, the advantage for almost relatives of deceased donors is to honor the selfless donation act.
Dr. H. Jauhari, chairman of kidney transplantation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Nový Delhi, supported the idea of giving women a priority in the gifts of the corpse. He noted that women were mainly donors in transplants of living organs, often as mothers, sisters, wives or daughters. Dr. Jauhari stressed that it created a disparity – fewer men donors and a larger number of recipients of men.
Dr. Jauhai, however, raised concerns about the implementation. He pointed out the complexity of the priority of a middle -aged woman to a young patient, a child or a primary family earnings and noted that such decisions would be “difficult”.
He stressed that the allocation of bodies at present often adheres to the approach to the first, and any new rules would require “responsible decisions”.
Basic problem
According to the annual report not these India, the most populous country, recorded only 18,911 transplants in 2024. Most of them came from live donors (15 505), with a smaller number of deceased donors (1 128).
Dr. Jauhari said that the main problem remains the low level of corpse gifts in India. He said that increasing awareness is the most critical factor and that increasing the gifts from the dead requires “joint efforts of society”.
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Dr. Kumar emphasized the need for the transformation of the gift and the transplant landscape in India. The letter called for greater transparency, justice and dignity of the process and introduced fundamental other measures to solve long -term problems.
According to consultancy, all transplantation hospitals and centers will have to submit data to each donor and recipient of the authorities or tissues to the National Register led by Notto. Failure to comply with this provision would probably lead to legal measures against such hospitals.
State governments have been said to create permanent positions for transplant coordinators in hospitals that carry out transplantation or searching for organs. They were recommended to develop a device for acquiring organs and tissues in all traumatic centers and register them as centers of searching for organs. The medical faculties were encouraged to develop similar facilities.
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Counseling requires training of emergency respondents and ambulance staff to soon identify potential deceased donors, especially between the victims of traffic accidents and patients with stroke.
Dr. Jauhari suggested that although the new rules are well meant, their success would eventually depend on a significant increase in the total number of authorities available.
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