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Karnataka’s Health Department has reconstituted organ-specific advisory committees nether the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO – Jeevasarthakathe) to bring greater transparency, efficiency, and objective expertise into the organ allocation and transplantation process.
Seven panels, each focusing connected a circumstantial organ - specified arsenic kidney, liver, heart, lung - person been reconstituted aft the word of the erstwhile committees ended successful April.
Each committee - comprising experts successful the applicable specialties from some authorities and backstage hospitals - volition relation for a three-year term.
“The requirements for allocation and transplantation disagree from organ to organ. By having abstracted panels, decisions volition beryllium guided by evidence-based objective criteria and specializer judgement alternatively than a one-size-fits-all approach,” Naushad Pasha, Chief Transplant Coordinator astatine SOTTO, told The Hindu.
According to a authorities bid (GO) issued successful this respect connected October 3, 2025, the primary responsibilities of the reconstituted committees see registering beneficiaries nether specified categories (general and emergency), advising connected the suitability and eligibility of donated organs, resolving issues related to allocation, providing guidance connected allocation policies, identifying and classifying marginal donors, and recommending inter-zonal organ sharing successful prime cases.
Additionally, the committees volition play a important relation successful guiding and assisting the process of encephalon decease declaration, offering proposal connected certification, and providing method enactment to hospitals and transplant teams.
Immunology and pathology
Apart from organ-specific, encephalon decease and infectious diseases advisory committees, the State for the archetypal clip has acceptable up an immunology and pathology advisory committee.
“This committee, comprising specialists successful immunology and pathology, volition supply adept guidance connected donor-recipient compatibility, organ suitability, and laboratory testing. The sheet volition measure humor groups, insubstantial types, and immune markers to guarantee that organs are transplanted safely and successfully, minimising the hazard of rejection,” Mr. Pasha said.
Similarly, the infectious diseases advisory committee volition analyse donor organs for infectious diseases, malignancies, oregon pathological conditions that whitethorn impact transplant outcomes. It volition besides show laboratory results from serology, virology, and histopathology tests, providing authoritative recommendations connected allocation decisions, helium explained.
Second highest donations
Karnataka has been among the much proactive States successful strengthening the deceased donor programme successful caller years. Karnataka SOTTO has facilitated 154 organ donations this twelvemonth (from January till date) - the 2nd highest successful the state this twelvemonth aft Tamil Nadu. Karnataka had recorded 162 and 178 donations successful 2024 and 2023 respectively.
Officials said the caller operation volition amended accountability. “The purpose is to guarantee that each determination connected allocation is transparent, traceable and successful compliance with the law. Domain experts volition deliberate connected objective factors portion allocation remains strictly according to guidelines,” Mr. Pasha added.
