MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI GHULAM NABI AZAD)
(a)to(d); A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 179 FOR 2ND DECEMBER, 2011
(a)&(b) Health being a State subject, data in this regard is not maintained centrally.
However, the estimates, based on published studies, indicate that there is a wide gap
between the demand and the availability of organs such as kidney, liver, etc. There is
an estimated requirement of more than one lakh kidneys, fifty thousand livers etc, while
only about five thousand kidneys and three hundred livers are reportedly transplanted
every year.
(c)&(d) Amendments have been made in Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, to make
the transplantation procedure simpler.
The 6th world and first Indian Organ Donation Day was celebrated last year i.e.,
November, 2010. The 2nd Indian Organ Donation Day was organised at AIIMS, New Delhi,
on 28th November, 2011, to emphasize and spread the message of Organ Donation among
the public.
Organ donation awareness workshops have been held at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai,
Pudducherry, Kolkata and Ahmedabad during 2011 for increasing the awareness among the
public for organ donation.
