Need for Amending the Transplantation of Human Organs Act Of 1994

ITN and MOHAN Foundation began campaigning for amending the THO Act in 1999. The Act was finally amended in 2011.

“...There is an overwhelming need to make certain amendments in the THO Act to give momentum to the flagging cadaver transplant scene in India. In 1996 the Madras bar Association had similar ideas. It formed a committee headed by the former advocate General of Madras High Court and was called the “Krishnamoorthy Committee” after his name... The Indian Transplant community has worked very hard to make the THO Act possible and it is now very disappointing to see the cadaver programme flagging. The transplant community should once again lobby and push the Government for amendments in the Act. It is only then that the organ failure patients in our country can be benefitted from the THO Act of 1994...”