Green Corridor: Organ Donation | 18 Aug 2020

Recently, a heart was brought from Pune to Chennai with the help of a “green corridor” created for unrestricted movement.

About: A green corridor is a demarcated, cleared out special road route created for an ambulance that enables retrieved organs meant for transplant to reach the destined hospital.
- Green corridors require a concentrated effort from transplant coordinators, local police, traffic police and airport staff. Awareness of the general public towards green corridors is also important.
Procedure: When a patient is declared brain dead and his family consents to organ donation, the availability of a recipient is first checked within the city, state, region and then nationally.
Need: Organs have a short preservation time, and green corridors ensure the ambulance escapes traffic congestion and reaches the destination in the shortest possible time.
Coordinated by: The requisite regulatory procedures and coordination was carried out with National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO).

National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation

National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) is a National level organization set up under Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, located in New Delhi.
NOTTO’s various state centers are called State Organ and Tissue Transplantation Organisation (SOTTO).
It coordinates and establishes a network for procurement and distribution of organs and tissues as per the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act 2011.
NOTTO in collaboration with the National Informatics Centre (NIC) is developing a national registry of organ and tissue donors.
- This initiative will help in maintaining data and surveillance of all transplants across the country and also plans to map post-transplant survival rate of patients.