A.P’s own cadaver transplantation programme by month-end
Cadaver transplantation is set to receive a big boost in Andhra Pradesh with scheduled launch of the programme at NTR University of Health Sciences later this month. The Government has cleared the decks for establishment of the Appropriate Authority for Cadaver Transplantation under the A.P Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1995 at NTRUHS and appointed its Vice-Chancellor T. Ravi Raju as the AACT Chairman. At a meeting on NTRUHS premises on Tuesday, Dr. Ravi Raju discussed with doctors of transplant centres and coordinators ways to popularize cadaver transplantation, also called Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation, which is confined to kidneys in the State due to infrastructure constraints and lack of experts to some extent. 1 issued on January 6, 2015 facilitated the launch of the State’s own cadaver transplantation programme in Vijayawada. The NTRUHS and Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam have been designated as ‘nodal places’ for imparting training to transplantation coordinators and AMC, Guntur Medical College and Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati as nodal organizations for undertaking promotional activities.
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