Page 2 - Organ Transplant

Waiting list for eye transplant at AIIMS Delhi grows threefold after Covid

Dr Titiyal said that he had hoped to touch 3,000 transplantations per year, however, due to Covid, the target will take another nearly three years to achieve

Do you qualify to be a heart donor? Find out

Over 54 years ago, Dr Prafulla Kumar Sen performed a heart transplant on a farmer suffering from chronic progressive cardiomyopathy in Mumbai. The surgery was a success. However, within three hours of the surgery, the patient died of heart failure. It was India's first human heart transplant and only the sixth in the world back then. Medical science has come a long way since then. So what is the basic requirement for a heart transplant? Let's take a look

Heart transplant in India: Favourable for foreigners or few takers here?

Heart transplant surgery is a rare facility available in the country, and no reliable data is available on transplant outcomes of the few facilities in existence

Govt issues new guidelines for foreigners seeking organ transplant in India

Among the patients from abroad, NRIs and persons of Indian origin will be given preference

Does India's organ transplant system favour foreigners and the rich?

How preferential allotment of organs to foreigners and the well-off is undermining trust in the process of organ donation