Please ensure that your registration is kept renewed every five years. Send your renewal request three months before the date of expiry. (Verify if your hospital is listed in the approved hospitals list for specific organs)
Maintain transplant surgery records for a minimum 10 years.
Set up a counseling service for individuals involved in organ transplant and designate a Transplant Coordinator to coordinate all aspects of transplantation on behalf of the hospital. Avoid media publicity on transplantation till the discharge of the applicant. Even then do not give details of the recipient and follow the ethics of the medical profession.
Post the approximate cost range of transplant surgery on your website and on Health Department designated website. Post total number of transplantations done in your hospital along with details of each transplantation on your website.
You are free to join the Cadaver Transplant Program and become part of the organ sharing network. This will enable you to receive deceased donor organs from other transplant or non-transplant hospitals for your patients and to share organs with others. For this, if you are a private hospital, you have to send an initial admission fee of Rs.10,000 (Rupees ten thousand) by way of D/D drawn on (will be intimated) and send it to the Convenor, Cadaver Transplant Program (CCTP), 165 A, Tower Block I, 6th Floor, [Next to Bone Bank], Government General Hospital Chennai – 600 003.
The Convenor will then send you a password, which you please use to register your hospital online on the website, www.tnos.org. Please make sure that there is a single point of contact at your hospital for the Convenor and at least two telephone lines are available 24×7 for purposes of organ sharing communication.
Please ensure that the password access is restricted to only a one or two key persons in your organization and the access is handled with full responsibility and confidentiality.