Health Ministry urges states to ensure regular reporting of organ transplant data

The Health Ministry has requested the states that expressed "serious concern" about hospitals not sharing data on organ transplantations and registering them in the National Transplant Registry to submit short status reports every month.In its letter, the ministry indicated that many registered transplant hospitals persistently fail to provide the daily and monthly data required to ensure transparency and support the equitable allocation of organs, as PTI said.

The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) is the organisation under the Directorate General of Health Services, Union Health Ministry, that has a statutory duty to maintain a National Transplant Registry under Section 13D the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act (THOTA) of 1994.According to the letter, the reason such a registry is important is for transparency in the process of transplanting organs and tissues, and to support policy decisions and improve equitable organ allocation.

“It is a matter of serious concern that many registered transplant hospitals have persistently failed to submit the daily and monthly data on organ transplantation activities and register transplantations on the National Transplant Registry. Such non-compliance undermines NOTTO’s ability to fulfil its obligations and impedes the objective of augmenting organ donation rates nationwide,” the letter said.