{"id":227263,"date":"2023-02-20T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227263"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:51:47","slug":"changes-in-organ-transplant-rules-a-new-lease-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/changes-in-organ-transplant-rules-a-new-lease-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in organ transplant rules: A new lease of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cChanges in organ transplant rules: A new lease of life <\/strong>published in Indian Express <\/b>on\u00a020th February 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About the revised guidelines for organ donation.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Union Health Ministry has recently revised several guidelines related to organ donation.<\/p>\n

What is Organ Donation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Must read: <\/strong>Organ Donation in India<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

India’s organ transfer law recognises donations by the patient\u2019s close relatives \u2014 parents, spouses and siblings. In case, a near relative is medically incompatible with the recipient, the pair is permitted a swap transplant with another related unmatched pair.<\/p>\n

What are the revised guidelines for organ donation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Read here: Now, no age bar to register for cadaver organ transplants<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What are the benefits of the revised guidelines for organ donation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Benefits of removing the upper age limit for registration<\/strong>: The pool of organ donors for a large section of critically ill people above 65 will be wider. Senior citizens in the age group above 65 can now register to receive donations from live donors.<\/p>\n

Benefits of removing domicile-related restrictions<\/strong>: Earlier, some states either registered recipients who lived there or accorded priority to them in allocating organs. Now the new guidelines will make organs accessible for timely transplants.<\/p>\n

Increase organ transplantation: <\/strong>India conducts the third-highest number of transplants in the world every year. But only 4% of the patients who require a liver, heart or kidney transplant manage to get one.<\/p>\n

The new guidelines will increase organ transplantation percentages in India.<\/p>\n

What are the issues with organ donation in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Problem with organ shortage<\/strong>: It is a complex problem faced by policy planners from not only India but also from nations whose healthcare systems are far better equipped than India\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The issue of the black market in organ donation<\/strong>:\u00a0The majority of organ donations in the country are not by the close kin of patients. This highlights the black market which lures the desperately poor to sell their organs.<\/p>\n

An issue with the screening committee<\/strong>: Donors have to convince a screening committee of their altruistic motives. But suggestions to make the proceedings of the committees more transparent have been ignored by authorities.<\/p>\n

What should be done to address issues in organ donation in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

India’s growing burden of lifestyle diseases might increase demand for the pool of organs. Hence, India should increase the pool of organs<\/strong> along with regulatory creativity without compromising on ethical imperatives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Introduce an opt-out system<\/strong>: It is adopted in some western countries. Under this, all citizens will be donors unless they \u201copt out\u201d. But for introducing such a system in India, the government should improve awareness of organ donation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cChanges in organ transplant rules: A new lease of life published in Indian Express on\u00a020th February 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Health. Relevance: About the revised guidelines for organ donation. News: The Union Health Ministry has… Continue reading Changes in organ transplant rules: A new lease of life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-227263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700138454},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}