Tamil Nadu has become the first State in the country to launch a 'donor card' that allows one to donate one's organs in the event of his death, in a regional language.
ONE of the objectives of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 was to clear the decks legally for the development of a cadaver-based organ transplantation programme. Towards this end, the Act recognised and defined, for the first time in India, the concept of "brain-stem death".
