Context: For the first time, Kerala organizes Transplant Games, a competitive sporting event for organ transplant recipients and donors.
Kerala to Host Transplant Games
- Aim: Transplant Games aims to honor organ donors and their families to raise the morale and confidence of organ recipients.
- Awareness: It will help to raise awareness about organ transplantation and foster a culture of organ donation.
- Building Community: The occasion helps Transplant recipients and donors to bond, connect and build a community.
- Success of Organ Transplantation: It is to showcase the success of organ transplantation in improving the quality of life and spreading the message that people who have undergone organ transplant surgeries can lead normal lives.
- The concept of Transplant Games, the importance of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle in transplant recipients’ long-term management and well-being is well established.
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World Transplant Games Federation (WTGF):
A worldwide organization representing more than 70 countries, has celebrated the success of organ transplantation and the gift of life through competitive sporting events for transplant recipients since 1978.
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Organ Transplantation in India:
- Increase in Organ Transplants: The number of organ transplants has increased by over three times from 4,990 in 2013 to 15,561 in 2022.
- Live Donors outnumber deceased donors: Of the 15,561 transplants, a majority of 12,791 (82%) are from live donors and 2,765 (18%) are from cadavers (Corpses).
- Kidney transplantation Topped: Up to 11,423 of the 15,561 organ transplants are for the kidney, followed by liver (766), heart (250), lung (138), pancreas (24), and small bowel transplants.
- Removes Age Limit for Organ Recipients: The upper age limit of 65 years for eligibility for registration to receive deceased donor organs has been removed.
- Now, a person of any age can register to receive a deceased donor organ.
- Domicile Requirement Abolished:
- Earlier, the organ allocation policy of states required needy patients to have a domicile in that particular state to be registered as recipients on that state’s waitlist. Abolish Registration Charge: Certain states asked for anything between ₹5,000 and ₹10,000 to register a patient on the organ recipient waitlist) (such as Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra, and Kerala).
Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act, 2011:
- The government of India amended the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 in 2011.
- Purpose of Act: Regulation and removal, storage, and transplantation of human organs and tissues for therapeutic purposes and for prevention of commercial dealing in human organs and tissues and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
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National Policy for Organ Transplantation:
- Currently, different states have different rules; the Union government is considering changes to the rules so that there is a standard criteria followed in all states across the country
- The Centre also plans to change the rules of the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act 2011 towards creating a national policy for transplantation.
Source: The Hindu
1 Dec 2023
