More than 61,600 patients are waiting for a kidney transplant in India, nearly five times the number of transplants performed, a parliamentary standing committee has said. India conducted 11,558 living-donor and 1,918…
India has introduced a national framework for organ swaps, including standard operating procedures and a unified registry managed by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO). The system will replace manual,…
Brain death and coma are fundamentally different conditions, though both involve severe unconsciousness. A coma is a state of profound unconsciousness with some remaining brain activity and brainstem functions, patients may breathe…
India performed 18,911 organ transplants in 2024, including 3,403 from deceased donors, according to the Ministry of Health's annual report. The country is now the world's third-largest by total transplants and the…
Nearly 5,000 patients in Mumbai are waiting for organ transplants, but only one in ten receives a donor organ, according to the Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC). Dr S. K. Mathur, ZTCC…
India recorded nearly 20,000 organ transplants in 2025, up from fewer than 5,000 in 2013, according to a February 2026 Press Information Bureau release. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO)…
India performed a record 20,138 organ transplants in 2025, a 6.5% increase over the previous year and a fourfold rise from 2013, according to the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO).…
