From : http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/14/stories/2010051461350500.htm
Compensation for small hospitals maintaining cadavers for donation
Ramya Kannan
CHENNAI: To give further fillip to the cadaver organ donation movement of the State, it has been decided that small hospitals maintaining cadavers are entitled to compensation for the expenses incurred for the same.
According to the Advisory Committee meeting, “a private donor hospital is entitled to be reimbursed of all costs incurred by it on the donor cadaver from the time the donor family consents to donate, including assistance in removing, transporting and preserving the organs, as determined by it.” They have, however, fixed a ceiling of Rs.75,000 on the amount that can be recovered.
The Committee has further specified the manner in which, and the sources it can be recovered from. “The total cost as above, will be distributed equally on all major organs such as kidney, liver and heart removed from that cadaver by private hospitals.” Private recipient hospitals who take these organs will reimburse their share of the cost to that donor hospital on request.
However, both government donor hospitals and government recipient hospitals are excluded from this procedure.
The move is an effort to bring more hospitals into the cadaver donation network of the State. While over 500 organs have been donated since the inception of the programme from over 90 cadavers since October 2008, an analysis reveals that the Government General Hospital itself has contributed over 40 per cent of the cadavers. In fact, the GH got involved in the project only from October 2009. The other major contributor has been Apollo Hospitals, Chennai.