Ganadarpan started the movement on Donation of Posthumous Body/Organs & Tissues to Medical Science for Education, Research and for Therapeutic Uses (Transplantations) in the mid-eighties of the last century. This bridges the movements of Science & Technology with Scientific Temperament (Rationalism). From the very inceptio, the Department of Health of Govt. of West Bengal is cooperating with the movement.

On 23 December 1954, the first human organ transplantation took place in America. It was supported by an appropriate statute there. In India, the Union Government enacted THE TRANSPLANTATION OF HUMAN ORGAN ACT in the year 1994. West Bengal Government `endorsed the same on 11 August 1995. This Act, on the one hand banned the illegal trafficking of organs & tissues and on the other, It accepted a new concept of death, the Brain-stem Death. The world of treatment got a host of life saving materials, i.e. organs & tissues retrived from a donated body that has undergone brain-stem death to `give a new lease of life to moribund patients. Ganadarpan and Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre proposed a joint venture with the Government of West Bengal, ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION COORDINATION CENTRE. The programme has been launched on November 5, 2004 at Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre, Salt Lake, Kolkata on the 113th birth anniversary of Prof. JBS Haldane and on the occasion of 50 Years of First Human Organ Transplantation in the World. This booklet while carrying the Report of that programme, has also incorporated with some valuable educative materials for the awareness campaign.

This joint venture was overdue. So better late than never, let us joion hands to make this effort successful.