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A life-saving call

Push for organ donation must turn into action

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THE Centre’s directive asking all hospitals to set up organ and tissue donation teams in their ICUs is both timely and overdue. Despite decades of advocacy, organ donation in India remains distressingly low — around 0.9 donors per million population, compared to over 30 in countries like Spain. As a result, lakhs of patients die each year waiting for transplants that never come even as many viable organs go unutilised. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) has now urged every hospital to create a dedicated team comprising brain-stem death committee members and counsellors to guide families through the process. It is a necessary move because many potential donations are lost for want of timely counselling, awareness and coordination. Often, by the time grief-stricken families are approached, the window for organ or tissue retrieval has closed irreversibly.

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