There has been 534 organ donations since the programme was started in the state eight years ago, benefiting 2,500 persons, Amalorpavanathan said.
He was inaugurating Liver Transplantation Services at the private Gem Hospital here, in collaboration with Medanta Liver Transplantation Institute, near Delhi.
Coimbatore was becoming the most important place for organ donation with 27 brain dead organ donations being done last year, out of 136 in the state, he said.
The main aim of setting up GEMEDANTA Centre was to reach out to large number of people, so that the gap could be bridged and many lives saved, Soin said.