The Health Department has instituted an inquiry against a prominent private hospital in the city for performing a liver transplant on a foreign national bypassing the registry of waitlisted patients. A notice to this effect is being issued to the hospital on Tuesday, it has been reliably learnt.
According to Health Department officials, the hospital had opted to divide the harvested liver and while one portion of the organ was given to an Indian patient who was waitlisted, the other portion was transplanted out of turn.
The hospital had allegedly bypassed the procedure laid down by the State government for the Cadaver Transplantation Programme.
Though each hospital has its own registry of persons waiting for organs, the hospitals must also inform about the harvested organs to the Cadaver Transplant Programme registry, which is maintained by the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital.
Since October 2008, till January 31 this year, 209 livers have been transplanted. Six hospitals, including Government Stanley Hospital, are registered for performing liver transplant surgeries.
