{"id":1932,"date":"2024-06-10T13:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2024-06-10T13:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T07:47:44","slug":"delhi-hc-holds-that-a-communication-shall-be-sent-by-email-or-whatsapp-to-the-donor-or-the-recipient-or-any-of-their-close-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/delhi-hc-holds-that-a-communication-shall-be-sent-by-email-or-whatsapp-to-the-donor-or-the-recipient-or-any-of-their-close-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC holds that a communication shall be sent by email or WhatsApp to the donor or the recipient or any of their close relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>AMAR SINGH BHATIA &amp; ANR. [<\/strong>Petitioners] <strong>Vs. <\/strong><strong>SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL &amp; ORS. \u00a0<\/strong>[Respondents]<\/h1>\n<p>W.P.(C) 3590\/2020<\/p>\n<p>(CORAM: JUSTICE <strong>PRATHIBA M. SINGH<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Facts:<\/u><\/strong> Vide judgment dated 4th January, 2024, this Court had considered the provisions of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 (hereinafter, \u2018THOTA\u2019) and had directed that proper timelines ought to be fixed for timely-disposal of applications received by patients for transplantation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Issue:<\/u><\/strong> Whether the present petition is maintainable?<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Arguments on behalf of counsel for petitioner:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ld. Counsel for the Petitioner has also perused what ld. Counsel for the Union of India has argued.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Arguments on behalf of counsel for respondent:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms. Saroj Bidawat, ld. Counsel for the Union of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, has placed before the Court today a communication dated 3rd May, 2024, issued by Ms. Vandana Jain, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, communicating to all Chief Secretaries and other officials of State\/Union Territories, the timelines for the functioning of the Authorization Committee under THOTA.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Held:<\/u><\/strong> The court held that, \u201c<em>The Court has noted that specific timelines have now been fixed for almost all the steps taken by the Authorization Committee. It is further clarified that whenever communication needs to be given to either the donor or the recipient regarding deficiencies in documentation or any procedural formalities, a communication shall be sent by email or to the mobile number via WhatsApp to the said donor or the recipient or any of their close relatives, ensuring that there is proof of communication. With this modification, let the timelines as contained in communication dated 3rd May, 2024 be implemented by all the Authorization Committees, which function under the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994. Let adequate publicity be given to the timelines and this order, so that there is proper compliance by all concerned stakeholders including hospitals and governmental authorities\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMAR SINGH BHATIA &amp; ANR. [Petitioners] Vs. SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL &amp; ORS. \u00a0[Respondents] W.P.(C) 3590\/2020 (CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH) &nbsp; Facts: Vide judgment dated 4th January, 2024, this Court had considered the provisions of the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994 (hereinafter, \u2018THOTA\u2019) and had directed that proper timelines ought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judgement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertslegal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}