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Organ Donation and Transplantation In India

History The history of transplantation in India has evolved every decade since the first kidney transplantation that took place in 1970. The first ten years ( from 1970-1980) the number of of such transplantation from living related donors during these early years was restricted to a few hospitals in India and the numbers  were small.

The first successful kidney transplantation took place in 1970 at the Christian Medical College, Vellore in Tamil Nadu and was done by Urologist D.Mohan Rao. Early attempts at transplants did take place in Varanasi (1966) and Mumbai (1967). In fact in 1966-67 Dr.Karanjawala attempted the first cadaver kidney transplantation and was

'''Organ Failure and Shortage ''' Living Related and Unrelated Kidney Tranaplantation The Kidneys Bazzar and Organ Commerce Kidney scandals in Media Mother of all Scandals - Amit Kumar

The Transplantation of Human Organ Act of 1994

Deceased Donation Transplantation

Early years - 1995 to 2000

Role of NGO's - MOHAN Foundation and FORTE

2000 to 2010 - Tamil Nadu story

The Deceased Donor Programme (DDP) in India has been possible since 1995 due to central legislation recognizing brain death (BD) as from of death. Organizing a DDP is a logistics as well as a medical challenge due to lack of awareness of BD among medical professionals and their failure in identification, certification and maintenance of BD. The programme has been more successful in South India due to the efforts of the government, hospitals and NGOs. The state of Tamil Nadu runs the most successful programme with an organ donation rate of 12 per million population (national rate 0.1 per million population) in Chennai city. Here the government provides the organ sharing and allocation framework, MOHAN Foundation (an NGO) creates public awareness, trains and places transplant coordinators in both public and private hospitals and helps in running s the online-waiting list registry for the state. As health is a state subject in India, individual states need to be more proactive in promoting the programme and providing adequate infrastructure in public hospitals. Also, hospital ICUs need to have a better understanding of the deceased donation process so as to integrate BD management into their routine care. This can be the key to success of DDP in India.

The Transplantation of Human Organ Act of 2011 The Future Road traffic accidents and brain death