When ‘Unsuitable’ Donors Become Lifesavers: How Indian Transplant Medicine Is Expanding The Donor Pool

There is an undercurrent of change in organ donation in India, even as hospitals are flooded with a rising number of patients awaiting organ transplant. What were once considered hopeless cases unsuited for any form of transplant, are now being offered a new lease on life through changes within the medical community’s understanding of organ donor eligibility.A case in point is the heartening success story of a young patient In Bengaluru, whose remarkable recovery and stable condition one year af