Bharathi Pravin Pawar, the Union Minister for State of Health and Family Welfare, stated that the government was doing many initiatives to raise public awareness about organ donation.
Hyderabad: The Central government announced on Friday that Telangana and Maharashtra had the highest rates of deceased donor organ transplants in the nation in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Bharathi Pravin Pawar, a minister of state for health and family welfare, revealed this in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The federal minister stated that Tamil Nadu was one of the States that was engaged in pursuing the initiative in response to a query posed by Vellore MP DM Kathir Anand.
Regarding the actions made by the Center to make it easier for worthy patients in the nation to get cadaver and living organ transplants, he said the government was undertaking many initiatives to raise awareness about organ donation. Among the many measures being taken, he said, are the dissemination of information by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (ROTTO), and State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO), a website www.notto.gov.in, a 24-hour call centre with a toll-free helpline number (1800114770), and assistance with coordination for organ donation.
The Telangana government, on its part, granted Rs 35 crore to build a cutting-edge multi-organ transplantation centre at Gandhi Hospital in the city, strengthening facilities for conducting organ transplants. In six months, the upscale facility will be completed. Although the NIMS hospital currently performs transplants, T Harish Rao, the health minister, emphasised on National Organ Donation Day in November 2017 that the issue needs to be pursued more vigorously.
The State government is now deploying helicopters to fly donated organs of brain-dead patients from district hospitals to teaching hospitals in Hyderabad as part of its quest for more organ transplant surgery in government hospitals.
