PIL filed seeking to form spl unit to identify brain dead

The Madras High Court today admitted a PIL seeking to direct the health department officials to form a special unit at theGovernment Rajaji Hospital here to identify the brain dead patients and to harvest organs from them by counselling their family members for organ donations.
Justices K K Sasidharan and B Gokuldass admitted the PIL and adjourned it for further hearing without mentioning the date.
The PIL submitted that there was need to effectively implement organ transplant programmes in the Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) like in private hospitals.
While the private hospitals in Madurai had harvested organs from 20 patients this year, the GRHhere did even create awareness regarding brain dead patients of the hospitals, though way back in 2013, 14,424 patients were admitted with urology problem, it said.

In 2015, 320 patients died because they had kidney problem in the GRH, the PIL claimed.
The hospital did not create a chance to give organ donation to the relatives of the brain dead patients despite the fact that a huge number of patients of the GRH needed kidney transplant, it said.
A large number of people were waiting for a long for the transplant of lung, liver and kidney. If the GRH initiated action to harvest organs from the brain dead persons, several lives could be saved, the PIL submitted.