NOTTO Launches Real-Time National Organ Transplant Portal and Mobile App

The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) launches a dynamic real-time national portal and mobile application to digitise India’s organ transplantation ecosystem. The platform provides for a unified nationwide waiting list, transparent organ allocation, national-level donor matching, and transplant outcome monitoring.

NOTTO Real-Time National Organ Transplant Portal and Mobile App:

Dimension	Key Details
Launch authority	The platform is launched by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO).
Components	The initiative comprises a national portal and a mobile application.
Core functions	The platform provides for a unified nationwide waiting list, transparent and traceable organ allocation, national-level donor matching, and transplant outcome monitoring.
Coordination coverage	The platform provides for coordination among hospitals, State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisations (SOTTOs), Regional Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisations (ROTTOs), and NOTTO.
Unified national waiting list mechanism	The portal provides for hospitals to upload patient details, and it automatically generates hospital-level, state-level, regional, and national waiting lists.
Real-time organ allocation scope	The portal provides for digital management of inter-hospital allocation, intra-state transfers, inter-state organ movement, and national-level allocation where required, and every transaction is digitally recorded.
National swap donor matching	The portal provides for nationwide matching for paired kidney exchange (swap transplantation), expanding matching across the country for nearly 1 lakh patients awaiting transplantation.
National transplant outcome registry	The portal provides for hospitals to upload follow-up health data of transplant recipients, creating a national database used for policy formulation, clinical research, quality assessment, and performance monitoring.
Digital alerts and Aadhaar-linked pledges	The portal provides for automated alerts and Aadhaar-linked organ donation pledges to ensure clarity regarding donor consent when required.
Regulatory functions supported	The platform provides for registration and renewal of transplant centres, online processing by State Appropriate Authorities, and formation and monitoring of statutory committees.
Organ allocation workflow	The portal provides for existing allocation principles in which the donor hospital gets the first opportunity, and if no suitable recipient is available, the organ moves to the State Pool, then the Regional Pool, and finally the National Pool.
Kidney allocation rule stated	For kidney allocation, the portal provides for one kidney to generally remain with the donor hospital, and the second to be allocated to the nearest government hospital with a matching recipient, progressing through state, regional, and national pools if unmatched.
Reported transplant figures	Delhi records the highest overall transplants of 4,564, and Tamil Nadu performs the highest number of deceased donor transplants at 266.
Diverse state allocation policies (examples)	Allocation policies comprise score-based allocation in Telangana, Maharashtra, and Gujarat; priority based on earlier registration in West Bengal, Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Kerala; a regional zonal allocation system in Tamil Nadu; and preference to patients lacking suitable living donors in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Allocation priority status with national list	Although the portal generates a consolidated national waiting list, allocation priorities continue to follow existing state guidelines.
Policy harmonisation constraint stated	NOTTO provides for consultation with states to evolve uniform allocation standards, and the article states that healthcare is primarily a State Subject.
Phased rollout timeline	All operational modules are expected to become fully functional within the next 2 months after testing system performance and traffic.