Hoping to set up a medical college in the state, Apollo Hospitals Group Chairman Prathap C. Reddy Wednesday said the West Bengal government should pass the cadaver transplant act to increase organ donation.
The Transplantation of Human Organ Act was passed by the central government in 1994.
"The central government has passed the Act but since health is a state subject the state has to define the act.
"Tamil Nadu has done, Andhra Pradesh has done and so has Karnataka ... and Delhi is about to pass it and I hope this state too does it ... so much more can be done in terms of organ donation," Reddy said during the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals here.
Reddy said his group "was willing to work" with the Bengal government to bring healthcare to rural areas but the problem lies in there being no strict definition of the public-private partnership (PPP) model in healthcare.
"The Planning Commission has made PPP for power, for roads, but unfortunately they have not come up in healthcare ... automatically they will add saying either you add 25 percent free or 30 percent free ... what is free? To what extent is free?"
