UP’s first organ transplant org in PGI soon

Uttar Pradesh will soon have its first State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) in Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS).

SOTTO will keep all information and follow the rules made under Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (ROTTO ). The SGPGI will work as an organ banking nodal centre. The website of SOTTO will soon be created by the hospital administration so that the patient can get all the details related to organ transplant on a single click. Dr Rajesh Harshvardhan of SGPGIMS said, “All 26 government and private hospitals will work under SOTTO. The hospital administration will also launch campaigns to make people aware about organ transplant. “The SGPGI will conduct its first webinar on October 31, in which additional chief secretary, medical education, Dr Rajneesh Dubey and reputed doctors will take part. The health professionals will discuss the role and significance of SOTTO, organ tissue harvesting and organ and tissue transplantation.

SGPGI director Dr RK Dhiman said, “With the formation of the first SOTTO centre, organ transplantation will now get a major boost in Uttar Pradesh. People can easily donate organs and get organ transplantation after contacting the hospital administration. In fact, they will also be able to donate organs of brain dead patients.”

Hospitals which will work under SOTTO are Apollomedics Super Speciality Hospital, Centre for Sight, Fortis Hospital, ICARE Eye Hospital, KGMU, Chandan Hospital, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Divine Heart and Multispeciality Hospital, Sahara Hospital, Command Hospital, Medanta, Yashoda Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi Centre for Sight Limited, Sharda Hospital, KK Hospital and Max Hospital etc.