TRANSPLANTATION

CENTERS IN INDIA

Submitted by,
Mithilaa S,
1st MSc.,Biochemistry.
• Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which
an organ is removed from one body and placed in the
body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing
organ.
• The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or
organs may be transported from a donor site to another
location. Organs and/or tissues that are transplanted
within the same person's body are called autografts.
• Transplants that are recently performed between two
subjects of the same species are called allografts.
• Allografts can either be from a living or cadaveric
source.
• Organs that have been successfully transplanted include
the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine,
  thymus and uterus.
• Tissues include bones, tendons (both referred to as
musculoskeletal grafts), corneae, skin, heart valves,
nerves and veins.
• Worldwide, the kidneys are the most commonly
transplanted organs, followed by the liver and then the
heart.
• India have 550 transplant centers registered with state
appropriate authorities and 140 non transplant organ
retrieval centers.
• Corneae and musculoskeletal grafts are the most
commonly transplanted tissues; these outnumber organ
transplants by more than tenfold.
• Organ donors may be living, brain dead, or dead via
circulatory death. 
• Tissue may be recovered from donors who die of
circulatory death, as well as of brain death – up to 24
hours past the cessation of heartbeat.
• Unlike organs, most tissues (with the exception of 
corneas) can be preserved and stored for up to five
years, meaning they can be “banked”.
List of Be st Or gan Tr ansplant Hospitals in India
■For tis Hospita l De lhi
■Ma x Hospita l De lhi
■Apollo Hospita l, De lhi
■Sir Ga nga Ra m H ospita l, D e lhi
■Blk Supe r Spe c ia lity H ospita l, De lhi
■Me da nta Hospita l, Gur gaon
■Ar te mis Hospital, Gurga on
■Na ra ya na He a lth, Ba nga lore
■Woc kha r dt H ospita l, Banga lor e
■Ma nipa l Hospita l, Ba nga lor e
■Asia Columbia Gr oup of H ospita ls
■Hir a nanda ni H ospital M um bai
■Lilava ti H ospita l M umba i
■Jaslok H ospita l M umba i
■Shroff Eye Hospital, Mumbai
■Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai
■P D Hinduja Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Mumbai
■Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai
■KIMS Hospital, Hyderabad
■Centre for Sight Superspecialty Eye Hospital, Hyderabad
■MaxCure Hospital, Hyderabad
■Continental Hospital, Hyderabad
■Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad
■Aster Medcity, Kochi Kerala
■Amrita Hospital, Kochi
■Miot International, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
■Global Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
■PSG Hospital, Tamil Nadu
■Kauvery Hospital, Chennai
■Billroth Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Cost of Organ Transplant in India
India is regarded as a home for high quality healthcare services which come along
with low cost services. The organ transplant cost in India is far less when
compared with the developed nations like the US and UK.
• Organ donation in India is regulated by the 
Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994. The law allows
both deceased and living donors to donate their organs. It also identifies brain
death as a form of death. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant
Organisation (NOTTO) functions as the apex body for activities of relating to
procurement, allotment and distribution of organs in the country.
• Although India has performed the second largest number of transplants in the
world in 2019 (after United States), it lags far behind the western nations like 
Spain (35.1 pmp), United States (21.9 pmp) and United Kingdom (15.5 pmp)
in national donation with a donation rate of only 0.65 per million population
(2019) due to its huge population.According to the 
World Health Organization, only around 0.01 percent of people in India
donate their organs after death.Some of the reasons behind such poor
performance are lack of public awareness, religious or superstitious beliefs
among people, and strict laws.
• In 2019, the Government of India implemented the National Organ
Transplant Programme with a budget of ₹149.5 crore (US$20 million) for
promoting deceased organ donation.
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• Vipin, Koushal; Raman, Sharma; Ashok, Kumar (2018). 
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