Health Ministry issues Draft Guidelines for Kidney Donors Invites suggestions/comments
Health Ministry issues Draft Guidelines for Kidney
Donors
Invites suggestions/comments
Invites suggestions/comments
Taking another major step
towards easing rules and procedures to encourage organ donation among the
masses, the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) under the
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued draft guidelines for Allocation
Criteria for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplant, today. The draft guidelines have
been posted on the website of NOTTO-www.notto.nic.in and
comments/suggestions/views have been invited to fine tune the guidelines. These
may be sent to the Director, NOTTO at dir@notto.nic.in by 16th January
2016.
Union Health and Family
Welfare Minister Sh. JP Nadda said, "This initiative reflects our
commitment to promote organ donation in the country. We willfinalisethese guidelines after we receive various suggestions and
comments on these draft guidelines. Once finalised, these guidelines will go a
long way in promoting organ donation in the country."
The draft guidelines
include issues such as:
- recipient registration,
listing and scoring system in the waiting list
- scoring system for making
priority
- allocation principles
- allocation algorithm,
including criteria for urgent listing, and
- inter-state issues
A list of the
government and non-government hospitals in Delhi along with those in the
neighboring area of the NCR (Gurgaon, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Noida) have also
been listed in the draft guidelines. The hospitals in the NCR cities will be
included in the networking along with hospitals of Delhi for the purpose of
organ sharing and allocation with the concurrence and MOU with the respective
State Governments and institutions in due course of time.
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