New Delhi: Training first responders, designating special teams in hospitals, upgrading trauma centres and registering them as organ retrieval centres are some of the steps suggested by the Centre to states to encourage organ donation , which is less than one deceased donor per million population in the country.

The central government has asked all states to organise state and district-level training programmes for first responders in emergencies, such as police personnel, ambulance drivers and para-medical staff, to facilitate organ and tissue donation from road accident victims .

In a letter, Dr Anil Kumar, Director of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), which is under the Union Health Ministry, said that India faces a critical shortage of organs for tr

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