NEW DELHI: Calling for a social movement to promote organ donation, health minister JP Nadda said the gap between organ demand and availability is immense. Though the donation rate has improved, there is a long way to go.

“Systems have to be created to bridge the gap. We should understand how we go forward to address issues of retrieval, transplant, transportation, human resource and training,“ Nadda said at a TOI roundtable on organ donation.Apart from the health minister and government representatives, experts from public and private healthcare institutions, including those from AIIMS, G B Pant, Ganga Ram Hospital, Fortis, Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Mohan Foundation brainstormed on challenges and hurdles to organ donation…..Readmore