Punjab Health Minister Dr. Yasmin Rashid chaired the 15th annual meeting of the Monitoring Authority of the Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority at the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department on Monday.
Present on the occasion were Acting DG Punjab Human Organ Transplantation Authority Dr. Murtaza Haider, Professor Muzammal Tahir, Professor Ghayasuddin Tayyab, PMA members, representative of Punjab Healthcare Commission, Mian Zahidur Rehman Batha and other officials of the department.
PHOTA Acting DG gave a briefing to the Minister about the performance of the Authority.
The Minister approved the minutes of the last meeting and asked for details of the fiscal year 2019-20.
She also gave directions to the officials to send the proposals of the monitoring authority on PHOTA Act 2020 to the Law Department. She also asked the monitoring authority to share proposals on fee of clinics for Corneal Transplant.
Besides the setting up of an organ procurement cell at Lahore General Hospital, the minister also approved the organ transplantation authority for South Punjab. She said the performance and capacity of the PHOTA will be enhanced and an organ procurement cell will also be set up at Bahria Orchard Hospital.
The minister also said that legislation is being introduced to curb illegal organ transplants and nobody will be allowed to carry out the illegal organ transplant business.
