Cadaveric organ donation in Karnataka is catching up fast with this year’s donations so far touching the century mark. This is the second time since the inception of the erstwhile Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka (ZCCK) for organ transplantation in 2007 that organ donations have touched 100. The State had recorded 105 donations in 2019.
In 2017, ZCCK was registered as a society and named as Jeevasarthakathe, the State’s nodal agency that facilitates cadaveric organ donations. This month (on September 5), the Union Health Ministry officially recognised Jeevasarthakathe as the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) and has allocated the required ₹84 lakh.
The 99th organ donation that happened in Chikkamagaluru is noteworthy as this is the first donation that has happened in a district hospital, which has been identified as a Non-Transplant Human Organ Retrieval Centre (NTHORC). The 100th donation has been done in Dharwad wherein the family of a 36-year-old industrial worker from Koppal, who met with a road traffic accident, donated his vital organs.
