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27 November, 2020
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Context
National Organ Donation Day was celebrated on 27th November by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
Key Points
National Organ Transplant Programme (NOTP)
Provides financial grants for establishing ROTTOs, and SOTTOs, developing new and upgrading existing retrieval and transplant centres.
Organ Donation Institutional Set-up:
The National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), the Regional Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisations (ROTTO) at the regional level and the State Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisations (SOTTO) at the state level.
State of Organ Donation in India:
India ranked third in the world as per WHO Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation (GODT) in terms of organ donation.
Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994
Main Provisions
Source: PIB
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