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CHENNAI: Criminal cases will be filed against anyone submitting false records to the Authorisation Committee that clears live, unrelated organ donation, a recent government order has mandated. The latest in a series of measures undertaken to curb organ trade in the State, this move will, for the first time, bring a direct punitive component for providing misleading information. The Authorisation Committee is required to recommend to the Appropriate Authority to file criminal cases against the donors/recipients when false records are submitted. In the case of minor recipients, the parents or guardians signing the fudged documents will be proceeded against. The Authorisation Committee is also permitted to refer doubtful cases to the police or Revenue Department for further enquiry. The Revenue Department will check the bona fides of the individuals and the police will be asked to verify if doubts arise about the particulars furnished by the proposed donors. While videographic recording of the Authorisation Committee meeting is being done informally, this order now makes it mandatory to videograph the proceedings, considering that some donors/recipients are known to contradict earlier statements. By the same measure, the Authorisation Committee must also update the Web clearances or rejections made for organ donation regularly. The website that was not functional since September 14, 2007 (The Hindu, May 8, 2008), is up and running again, with the results of two recent meetings being recorded online. The order also rules out a donor, rejected once by the Committee, from applying again. This relates directly to charges made when the organ donation scam broke out early last year — that allowing those who were rejected once to be approved the second time actually promoted kidney trade. However, the current practice of permitting a change in the hospital chosen by a recipient for transplant surgery shall continue. The Committee must issue a fresh permission letter to the second hospital without insisting on a no-objection certificate from the first. Personal appearance of the donor or recipient will also not be necessary. Another contentious issue, one relating to relationship claims made by foreign nationals, has been addressed by the GO. All such donors and recipients are now required to appear before the Authorisation Committee, even if they receive organs from relatives. The Committee has also been authorised to give recognition (certification) to counselling institutions in the State to provide additional counselling support to live donors as the need for such counselling was pointed out by many hospitals doing transplants.
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