MumbaiThe Bombay High Court recently asked the State government to ensure that appropriate hospital-based authorisation committees are set up to look into organ donation. On June 21, 2013, a mechanism to set up authorisation committees was put in place. The Bench recorded that the of the 321 cases sent to regional committee at Mumbai, 318 were approved. The court said, the State must consider creating a full-time post of assistant professor in medicine and make him a member of the regional authorisation committee of Mumbai and Pune. The court said the State needs to give publicity about the existence of Regional Authorisation Committees and Hospital Level Authorisation Committees.

Source: The Hindu May 11, 2019 17:26 UTC