Conditions and standards for grant of certificate of registration for organ retrieval centres.

(1) The retrieval center shall be registered only for the purpose of retrieval of organ from deceased donors and the organ retrieval centre shall be a hospital having Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities along with manpower, infrastructure and equipment as required to diagnose and maintain the brain-stem dead person and to retrieve and transport organs and tissues including the facility for their temporary storage. (2) All hospitals registered as transplant centres shall automatically qualify as retrieval centres. (3) The retrieval centre should have linkages with nearby Government hospital designated for post-mortem, for retrieval in medico-legal cases. (4) Registration of hospital for surgical tissue harvesting from deceased person and for surgical tissue residues, that are routinely discarded, shall not be required.