Organ Distribution And Allocation Model In Organ Donation And Translantation

TAMIL NADU MODEL IN ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION: In 2008, the Government of Tamil Nadu through a innovative effort put together government orders laying down systems and procedures for deceased organ donation and transplantation in the state. The organ sharing registry developed by MOHAN Foundation was adopted by the state government to start the Tamil Nadu Network for Organ Sharing. With an organ donation rate of 1.15 per million population, Tamil Nadu is now the top in deceased organ donation in the country. Allocation Model of Organs: Ramachandra Protocol' To Ask For Organs Source: Mohan Foundation
The model has been possible though the joining hand with both government and private hospitals, NGOs and the State Health
It has taken up two southern states where they have had some success with their small pilot programmes. The organization has a small number of trained counselors and is run on a meager budget. They have experimented with two different models – the first one supports hospital based counselors and in the second they have worked with independent trained counselors working from their foundation office. They have had success with both the models. Of the 1300 deceased donation in India, MOHAN has been responsible for facilitating over 33% of such donations. MOHAN successfully undertook 22 deceased donations in 2007 from Andhra Pradesh and obtained almost 80 organs. This was without much support from Government Hospitals. These donations to a large extent were possible due to the constant education about organ donation and brain death and distribution of over 300,000 donor cards by the NGO in these two states. In many of the donations in the family members wished to donate the organs of their loved
Under this scheme, each beneficiary family will give upto Rs1lakh. Around one crore underprivileged benefit from this scheme.
The Government of Tamil Nadu is dedicated to offer quality health care to all the people. In Tamil Nadu all the three levels of care namely Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Health Care are provided free of cost to the poor people. Tamil Nadu has made significant progress in the reduction of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), Birth Rate and Death Rate. Life Expectancy at Birth has increased to 65.4 mainly due to the provision of good health care and other social welfare assistance. In Tamil Nadu, health services are delivered free of cost to the poor through a network of 8704 Health Sub Centres (HSCs), 1422 Primary Health Centres (PHCs), 235 Taluk / Non taluk Hospitals, 29 District Headquarters Hospitals and 15 Government Medical College Hospitals. People working in organized sector are covered through a network of ESI Dispensary and Hospitals. In tallying to these services, financial assistance is provided