Shock: Private Airlines refusing to carry Organs

Recent cases have brought out the indifference and frank apathy of private airline companies towards humanitarian causes. This was seen recently when the state-run Jeevandan scheme of Hyderabad which involves facilitation of organ transplantation hit a new roadblock.

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This roadblock is in the form of private commercial airlines refusing to offer their services to the cause of organ donorship. This includes airlines operating from Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati who are refusing to transport harvested organs to their destinations leading to unnecessary loss of life. Case in point is the incident from earlier this month where a private carrier refused to transport the harvested liver of a brain-dead patient from Hyderabad to Vizag until the intervention of a Vizag MP.

The result is that hospitals are forced to rely only on Air India flights which are reflected in recent figures.