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The Organ Transplantation Act issued by the Government of India 1994 has undergone major and minor changes in the form of addition of rules and amendments in order to improve the Act to make it much acceptable legally. Over a period of time, with an increase in cadaver organ donations, the rules and policies with regard to the same have been define...
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Context 1
... are 26 sections in the Act. Each section deals with different aspects involved in donation, retrieval, and legal procedures ( Table 2). ...Context 2
... to the act, registration of a hospital which shall commence activity in organ transplantation for therapeutic purpose has to be done with the appropriate authority in a prescribed form and manner along with the due payment of fees. Appropriate authority which is appointed by the state government shall grant/renew/suspend/cancel registration Continuation of Table 2 22 ...Similar publications
Background:
Organ donation has become one of the most effective ways to save lives and improve the quality of life for patients with end-stage organ failure. No previous studies have investigated the preferences for the different consenting options for organ donation in Egypt. This study aims to assess Egyptians' preferences regarding consenting o...
The large gap between the demand for, and the supply of organs worldwide makes promoting organ donation an important global social issue. Even after someone has signed a consent form or registered for organ donation, ethically, the hospital still requires a family member’s written permission before organ donation can proceed. As a result, a family...
Introduction: Medical institutions and hospitals worldwide and India in specific are typically facing an acute shortage of donated human body and organ. Among the bouquet of reasons, awareness, attitude, legal and medical knowledge are undoubtedly the prime factorials. A better understanding will enhance this noble strategy. With the objective to i...
Objective:
To understand Nova Scotian family physicians' and emergency department (ED) physicians' knowledge of, attitudes about, and experience with organ donation and transplantation in the context of the Human Organ and Tissue Donation Act (HOTDA).
Design:
An electronic, self-administered survey.
Setting:
Nova Scotia.
Participants:
All fa...
Citations
... THOA has total 26 sections and each section deals with different aspects involved in organ donation. 16,17 Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA), 1994, was issued by Government of India and has been evolved with the time. THOA 1994 was further revised in 1995, 2008, 2011, and lastly in 2014. ...
Introduction
Organ transplantation is one of the most successful advances in modern medicine. However, a legal system is necessary for its practice to be free from ethical flaws and to respect donors, recipients, and family members.
Objective
To map the global legislation regulating the donation, capture and distribution processes of organs and tissues from deceased donors for transplants.
Method
A scoping review according to the Joanna Briggs Institute was conducted in the following databases: Medline, CINAHL, Virtual Health Library, SCOPUS, Web of Science, Science Direct, and EMBASE, as well as gray literature, and reported according to the PRISMA extension for scoping reviews.
Results
We identified 3302 records, of which 77 were analyzed which enabled mapping the type of consent adopted and the existence of current legislation for harvesting organs and tissues after circulatory and brain death.
Conclusion
Opt-out consent predominates in Europe, and there is harvesting after brain and circulatory death. Opt-out predominates in the Americas, while Opt-in and harvesting of organs and tissues after brain death predominate in Asia and Oceania. The procurement of organs and tissues from deceased donors is practically non-existent in Africa.
