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the destination hospital.         organs. These steps are aimed
            Another remarkable initiative   at providing better and more
        taken  by  the Government  is     equitable access to organs
        the  adoption  of  ‘One  Nation,   and  also  to  promote  cadaver
        One  Policy’  for  organ  donation   donation, which currently form
        and    transplantation.  Earlier,  a minuscule fraction of all organ
        a prospective recipient was       transplants carried out in India.
        eligible to register himself only in   In  order  to   increase
        his state of domicile, however, the   awareness and break myths
        new changes allow all Indians to   around    organ     donation,
        register themselves on a single   the   Government     conducts
        waiting  list,  irrespective  of  their   various awareness generation
        domicile. The new guidelines      programmes on-ground as well
        have also removed the upper       as on multimedia platforms
        age  limit  of  65  years  for  any   with the help of NOTTO, All India
        person to be eligible to register   Radio, Doordarshan, and other
        for receiving deceased donor      channels. Recently, the Prime





















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