'Important & Relevant': State Directed to Respond to PIL on Lack of Organ Transplant Centres and Donor Shortage: Andhra Pradesh High Court
The Andhra Pradesh High Court, while hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in 2016, raised serious concerns over the absence of sufficient organ transplant centres in the state. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Ravi Cheemalapati directed the Department of Health, Medical and Family Welfare to submit a formal reply, emphasizing the critical and life-saving nature of the issue raised. PIL filed by NGO…