Health Ministry for driving licence to indicate desire to donate organ

March 07, 2011

If the Union Health Ministry has its way, driver’s licences will indicate if the holder wants to donate organs after death.
In an ambitious plan to decrease the gap between the demand and supply of organs, the government is considering earmarking a designated space, indicating “donor”, on the driving licence.

The idea, officials say, will soon be communicated to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

The ministry has got a sample driving licence from the US so that the same design and matter could be replicated here.

“At least, the intention of a dying person will be known to doctors, who can thereafter convince the family,” said a senior ministry official.
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