Organ transplant

'Be more sensitive’: Court allows Bangladeshi mother to donate kidney to ailing son, raps panel

June 04, 2026 11:55 am

The Madras High Court was hearing a Bangladeshi couple’s plea seeking nod to donate the mother’s kidney to her minor son even as the transplant authorisation committee raised questions over the couple’s marital ties.

UK woman has baby after receiving womb from deceased donor: Doc explains science breakthrough

March 01, 2026 8:53 pm

A uterine transplant does not improve fertility; its purpose is to make pregnancy possible for women who otherwise have no uterus to carry one. Pregnancy is achieved through IVF using the woman’s own eggs or donor eggs

Organ donation gap: Deceased donor transplants go up after PM Modi push but demand higher

February 24, 2026 7:54 pm

India needs 1.75 to 2 lakh kidneys each year but just 13,476 kidney transplants were done in 2024

She wanted to donate her kidney to a stranger, so this Bengaluru doctor approached the high court

February 15, 2026 4:48 am

The 58-year-old Bengaluru resident and a fetal medicine consultant at Manipal Hospital is now recovering at home after successfully donating her kidney to a woman, also in her 50s.

Orphan from Nepal needed a new heart. A district hospital in Kerala came to her rescue

December 24, 2025 7:59 am

On Monday, the heart of S Shibu, a native of Kollam, was harvested at the Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, where he was declared brain-dead, and flown to Kochi by an air ambulance.

World Organ Donation Day: What developing nations can learn from India’s organ transplant policy

August 13, 2025 6:40 pm

If other developing nations adopt and adapt India’s institutional lessons, they too can extend the gift of life to thousands more

GMCH-32 soon to have system of organ retrieval from brain-dead patients for transplantation

August 10, 2025 12:53 am

Amongst the government hospitals, the PGIMER has performed the highest number of organ transplants from brain-dead patients in the country

Months after transplantation gives her a new hand, Muslim teen from Mumbai ties Rakhi to brother of Hindu donor in Gujarat's Valsad

August 10, 2025 8:34 am

Anamta was in Class 10 when, after coming in contact with a high-tension wire, her entire right arm had to be amputated by doctors in 2022. Even her left arm was working at 20% capacity

India performed record 18,900 organ transplants in 2024: Nadda

August 02, 2025 7:44 pm

This is a significant leap from fewer than 5,000 transplants in 2013, JP Nadda said, adding that India ranks third globally in the total number of organ transplants.

The complex logistics of organ transplant: How a Surat donor’s organs were taken to five Indian cities

January 05, 2025 12:57 am