Mumbai: The Bombay High Court recently directed the State to file an affidavit on whether authorisation committees have been formed in hospitals where more than 25 kidney and liver transplants take place in a year.
A Division Bench of Justices Abhay Oka and Riyaz Chagla was hearing a bunch of petitions seeking implementation of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Rules, 2014. The rules which came into force in Maharashtra on December 18, 2015.
As per a notification issued on January 19 this year, the State government has proposed to constitute a State-level authorisation committee and district authorisation committees in line with the rules.
The government tendered a list of hospitals where more than 25 live kidney and liver transplants are carried out in a year with local authorisation committees.
The list includes INHS Asvini Hospital in Mumbai; Wockhardt Hospitals, New Rishikesh Medical Foundation and Research Centre, and Shree Saibaba Heart Institute and Research Centre Private Limited in Nashik; and KEM Hospital and Padmashree Dr. D.Y. Patil Hospital and Research Centre in Pune.
The court said the local committees do not seem to have been constituted and notified by the State government. It directed the secretary of the Medical Education and Drugs Department to file an affidavit on whether the committees have been formed in hospitals as per the notification.
