Registry set up for patients who need hand transplantation
- September 9, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Registry set up for patients who need hand transplantation
Sub: Sci
Sec: Health
Context:
- India has set up a registry for the first time for patients requiring hand transplantation, which will facilitate the allocation of the donated organ in a transparent manner and on a priority basis.
About the registry:
- The registration will be accepted in the national registry maintained by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), which falls under the aegis of the Union Health Ministry.
- This will help NOTTO in smoothening the national allocation process and data management for hand transplant of donors and recipients.
- Hand donation process is not perceived favourably and the establishment of a registry and pan-Indian allocation of the hands on a priority basis will give boost to the donation.
Hand transplantation:
- Hand transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another.
- Usually, organs are donated after brain death but hands can be donated both after brain death and cardiac death.
- In case of a cardiac death, hands should have to be donated within half an hour after the heart has stopped.
Hand transplantation in India:
- Presently nine hospitals are registered for performing hand transplants in the country.
- So far 36 patients have received hand transplants and 67 hands have been transplanted, according to the data compiled by NOTTO.
- Hands at various levels of amputation i.e. Forearm, upper arm and even at shoulder level has been carried out successfully in India.
About NOTTO:
- National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) is a national level organization set up under Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
- NOTTO functions as an apex centre for All India activities of coordination and networking for procurement and distribution of Organs and Tissues and registry of Organs and Tissues Donation and Transplantation in the country.
- It also lays down policy guidelines and protocols for transplantations.