New Delhi, June 20 -- The union health ministry has called for including liver and heart transplants under the government's flagship health insurance scheme, the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY).

This assumes importance given that health insurance schemes in the country cover life and disability, but not organ donation.

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The recommendation comes in a report, titled the National Review Meeting on Organ Transplantation Activities in Government Hospitals, prepared by the National Organ Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), a top body which manages organ transplantation, under the health ministry.

The call for expanding insurance coverage comes in the bac...