Jammu, 30 july: Shortly, the vehicular movement on a certain route may be restricted by the cops in Jammu and they will be deployed at various places to ensure that no one violate such restrictions because a mock drill is going to be conducted to evaluate the preparedness for the upcoming operation of laying Green Corridor aimed at saving lives of people and to facilitate the transfer of human organs, this exercise would be carried out for the first time in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory.
As per the sources, the mock drill will be accomplished jointly with the coordination of district administration Jammu, Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Jammu, State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (SOTTO) team of Jammu, local and traffic police and Airport Authority of India (AAI).
When contacted, GMCH Principal Dr. Shashi Sudan stated that only a small number of centres in India perform organ transplants and that these organs are sent via the Green Corridor.
“May be within a week or 10 days the mock drill might be conducted while many works for success of the same are underway”, she said.
Adding she said “When we have availability of some organ we inform ROTTO, Chandigarh or NOTTO, New Delhi and their team arrives here after which we retrieve the organ from the brain dead person and give it to the visiting team that has arrived to collect the same ensuring no wastage of time and in this way important human lives will be saved.”
At the regional level there is ROTTO (for northern region) and it covers States of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana along with Union Territories of J&K, Ladakh and Chandigarh while at national level there is NOTTO.
According to Dr. Sanjeev Puri, Deputy Director of SOTTO J&K, the Green Corridor functions in both directions, meaning that it must be set up in Jammu if an organ is being transported from here to another location and likewise, if an organ is being brought from another location to Jammu, then again the corridor should be here to facilitate its storage.
