Make sure that Form 6 of THO Rules gets signed – Form 9, if the donor is below the age of 18 – by the donating family to authenticate the consent. This is necessary even if the patient had earlier expressed a desire to donate organs.
Inform the Convenor over the phone immediately with information on name, sex, age, weight and blood group of the donor and any other information he asks for and keep him posted of the cadaver maintenance status. For organs allotted for local use, inform the patient on top of your hospital waitlist the time of surgery and alert the next on the list. If the hospital waitlist prioritization is not adhered to, for any reason, explain this to the Convenor.
When an organ from the deceased donor is allotted as Share by the Convenor to other hospital/s, please cooperate fully with the recipient hospital/s by providing all information on the donor, blood sample and tests if needed and schedule the organ retrieval to suit all concerned.
Please keep the donor family posted of the organ utilization procedure and assist them with all formalities, including police liaison in road traffic accident or such medico-legal cases. Do send the information report on donation to the Convenor as early as possible, within 48 hours of organ retrieval, through the online form at the website http://dmrhs.org. Fill in separate forms for donor and for Local organ recipients. Send him also a monthly statement of donations and cadaver organ transplants done.
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Please also ask the family to donate cornea and arrange with a local eye bank to utilize it. If, for any reason, heart cannot be used, heart valves can be utilized.
There could be rare cases where the relatives of a Deceased Donor request that an organ of the Donor be allotted to a near relative of the Donor – spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother or sister – suffering from failure of that organ. In such cases, please verify the facts of the case and accede to it with the approval of the Convenor.