Jipmer's organ transplant institute plan dropped in Puducherry

PONDICHERRY: Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (Jipmer), which proposed to establish an Institute of Organ Transplantation at Sedarapet in the outskirts of the town, dropped the proposal after the Puducherry government cancelled the land allotted for the project, said minister of state for health and family welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar.

Furnishing a written reply to a query posed by Puducherry MP V Vaithilingam, Pawar said Jipmer proposed to establish the institute on a piece of land allotted by the Puducherry government in 2018. "However, the Puducherry government has issued a letter cancelling the allocation of the land to Jipmer. Hence the proposal could not progress," Pawar said. Pawar said the Union government decided to establish State organ and tissue transplant organization (Sotto) in each state/Union territory as per the National organ transplant programme (NOTP) guidelines for the period between 2021-22 and 2025-26.