Hyderabad, March 27 -- Telangana Medical and Health Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha announced in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that the state will establish organ and tissue collection and storage centers to promote organ donation.
During a debate on the Telangana Transplantation of Human Organs Bill, the Minister emphasised the importance of adopting and implementing the Transplantation of Human Organs & Tissues Act (THOTA), 2011 to streamline organ donation and transplantation procedures in the state.
He noted that the Central Government first introduced the Transplantation of Human Organs Act (THOA) in 1994, followed by an amendment in 2011, which expanded the scope to include tissue transplantation as well. The THOTA Act and its...