India, June 26 -- The public health department directed all government and private hospitals empanelled under the Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana (MJPAY) that do not perform organ transplants to register with the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation Registry Centre (NTORC).

The directions were issued by public health minister Prakash Abitkar during a one-day workshop on the newly introduced hub-and-spoke model held in Pune on Thursday.

Health officials said registering non-transplant hospitals with NTORC would enable timely identification and referral of brain-dead donors, helping patients on the transplant waiting list receive organs more quickly.

The workshop was jointly organised by the Deputy Director of Health...