Tag: Guidelines for the transportation of live human organs

NATIONAL DIARY OF EVENTS

Guidelines for the transportation of live human organs The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has issued a set of guidelines for the transportation of live human organs. While transporting the organs by air the box containing the organ should be screened without opening it Staff carrying/accompanying the organ box should be given priority in deboarding Note The Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994, allows harvesting of organs from living donors or brain-dead patients with the consent of family members