Source: BS
Context:
During the 16th Indian Organ Donation Day (IODD) event in New Delhi, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel unveiled the e-Pratyaropan Digital Platform, along with the NOTTO Mobile App and the “Angdaan Karo, Jug Jug Jiyo” year-long national awareness campaign.
What It Is
An integrated, national-level unified digital platform to digitise and streamline India’s organ donation and transplantation ecosystem — a central interface connecting hospitals, transplant surgeons, organ donors, waiting-list recipients and regulatory bodies into a single technology-enabled framework.
| Parameter | Detail |
|---|---|
| Nodal Ministry | Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) |
| Implementing Agency | National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) |
Aim: to establish a transparent, fair and efficient organ donation framework that eliminates manual delays, prevents malpractice, maintains real-time organ registries, and speeds up matching and allocation.
Key Features
- Unified national registry and waitlist management — real-time digital databases for transplant waiting lists, deceased and living donors, tissue banks and donation pledges. Waiting lists are generated automatically at hospital, state, regional and national levels from data uploaded by transplant centres.
- Automated and transparent allocation — protocol-based algorithms aligned with THOTA (Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act) guidelines, allocating retrieved organs strictly on medical priority, geography and urgency, eliminating discretionary bias.
- Hospital and stakeholder integration — registered hospitals, ROTTOs and SOTTOs log transplant procedures, organ retrieval alerts and recipient updates within mandatory timeframes (e.g. 48 hours post-procedure).
- Digital identity verification — integrates mobile and digital ID platforms for pledges and issues authentic digital pledge certificates.
- Real-time organ tracking — interoperable with the NOTTO Mobile App to monitor movement of retrieved organs along green corridors and transport routes.
