India's Brain Death Rule: A New Era for Organ Donation?

The Supreme Court of India has directed the central government to consider amending registration rules to include brain stem death certification, paving the way for a national organ donation policy. This move seeks to establish brain death as a standard definition of death, integrating organ donation into routine hospital procedures rather than solely a transplant-driven activity. Despite Kerala's earlier efforts to delink brain death certification from organ donation, medical professionals express a significant knowledge gap and hesitation.