To promote organ donations in the State, Haryana Government has decided to establish State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO).
The SOTTO would be established at Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak, said an official spokesman.
He said that Chief Minister Manohar lal has approved a proposal in this regard and directed the officers to give top priority to this project and establish the same by January 31, 2018.
The CM has also approved an annual outlay of Rs 88.90 lakh including recurring and non-recurring expenditure for the organisation.
The spokesman said that the PGIMS, Rohtak which is a tertiary care institute of Haryana, has designated a nodal officer for the programme who would look after this project at the institute.
He said that various issues would be undertaken by PGIMS, Rohtak and other government, government aided and private medical colleges in the state. These included creating public awareness about need for organ donation, motivate people to pledge their organs, motivate family members to donate organs after death of a family member, identify and notify brain death, develop organ retrieval and inform the hospitals about availability of organs, added he.