Maharashtra:Soon, Law to make private hospitals provide lifetime medical assistance to kin of donors
MUMBAI: In a bid to promote organ donation, the Maharashtra government is considering to formulate a law which would make it mandatory for private hospitals to provide lifetime medical assistance to the donor's family.
State Ministers Deepak Sawant and Girish Mahajan were addressing reporters here today after inaugurating the website 'dmer.org/new/organ.htm' which allows people to pledge organ donation online.
"Private hospitals gets ranking based on the organ donations they receive and the number of organ transplants they undertake. Though at the nascent stage, we are considering to formulate a law that would make it compulsory for private hospitals, where a person has donated his organ, to provide lifetime medical assistance to the donor's dependants," said Sawant, who holds the Health portfolio.
According to the senior Shiv Sena Minister, this may boost people's morale for donating their organs.
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