Kidney rackets

Subject: Governance

Section: Act

Content

The busting of yet another racket throws the spotlight on the shortage of kidneys to meet the demand.
Donations from the dead are rare; experts say increasing these will reduce dependence on live donors.

Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994

The Transplantation of Human Organs Act was passed in 1994. It provides various regulations for the removal of human organs and its storage.
It also regulates the transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes and for the prevention of commercial dealings in human organs.
The act recognises brain death identified as a form of the death process and defines criteria for brain death.
It provides regulatory and advisory bodies for monitoring transplantation activity.
It also provides for maintenance of a registry of donors and recipients of human organs and tissues.

National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP)

Provides financial grants for establishing ROTTOs, SOTTOs, developing new and upgrading existing retrieval and transplant centres.

Organ Donation Institutional Set up:

The National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), the Regional Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisations (ROTTO) at regional level and the State Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisations (SOTTO) at state level.

State of Organ Donation in India:

India ranked third in the world as per WHO Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation (GODT) in terms of organ donation.