Legal

A list of important govt orders released from 2008 onward on deceased organ donation.

Ms. Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug, a staff of KEM Hospital Mumbai suffered grave injuries and brain damage in 1973 and after 36 years of lying in bed-ridden virtually non-communicative condition one Ms. Pinki Virani of Mumbai, claiming to be a next friend filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution on behalf of the petitioner Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug for her Euthanasia...

Government of India had passed the Human Organs Transplantation Act, 1994 with the objective of promoting and regulating the transplantation of various organs like kidney, liver and heart in both live as well as in cadaver transplantation. The Government of Andhra Pradesh had also adopted the aforesaid Act of Government of India in the form of Andhra Pradesh Human Organs Transplantation Act, 1995...

On 01/09/11 in the court of New Delhi, petition was filed by Mrs. Sadhna Bhardwaj for issuance of a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for undergoing kidney transplant at Remedy Hospital, Kolkata. The petitioner aged 52 years, a resident of Delhi is stated to be suffering from End Stage Renal Disease was advised for kidney transplantation as soon as possible...

Organ transplantation, one of the medical miracles of the twentieth century, has prolonged and improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients worldwide. The many great scientific and clinical advances of dedicated health professionals, as well as countless acts of generosity by organ donors and their families...

This Rule published in Gazette of India (Extraordinary) pertains to Transplantation of Human Organs - its procedures and various aspects in details. It was a Ministry of Health Notification as per the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994...

The Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act was issued on 27th September, 2011 as an amendment to the corresponding Act issued in 1994...

A Bill to amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 was passed in the Parliament in 2011 for regulation of removal, storage and...

... 2. The petitioner aged 52 years, a resident of Delhi is stated to be suffering from End Stage Renal Disease and has been advised a kidney transplantation as soon as possible. She further claims that one Smt. Kumkum Ganguly wife of Sri Narayan Ganguli R/o District Hooghly has agreed to donate her kidney to her...