India is rightly proud of its status as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. But there is another, less admirable label that refuses to go away. Despite the country’s best efforts to eradicate the black market trade in human organs, India retains a reputation as an easy place to buy a kidney.
The Apollo Group is one of the best known names among private hospitals in the country. So it was a bit of a shocker when the Delhi Police claimed on Friday that it had cracked a kidney racket operated by a group that included the personal staff of doctors at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital.
Only one in every 300 kidney patients in India receives a donated organ. This huge gap in demand and supply of organs has led to the creation of an illegal kidney transplant industry worth Rs 250 crore a year. No wonder, despite a stringent law with up to 10 years’ imprisonment, some doctors and middlemen are running clandestine operations across the country.
Every 15 minutes, a person is added to the wait list for an organ. Every 10 minutes, a person dies waiting for an organ. Delhi, with a population of 9.8 million, saw only 14 organ donors in 2015, which is probably why families turn to purchasing organs from commercial donors.
Anita Singh, a 40-year-old from Noida with both her kidneys failed, sold her house earlier this year so that she could continue to pay for her dialysis.
en it comes to cadaver transplants, Tamil Nadu led the country last year with 155 organs donated. A proactive government working in tandem with hospitals and NGOs like Mohan Foundation has made this possible. There has been no looking back ever since the state government took an initiative to aware people about cadaver transplant in 2008.
FORT (Fortis Organ Retrieval and Transplant) in association with MOHAN Foundation is organising the 3rd Annual FORT-MOHAN Foundation National Training Programme for Transplant Coordinators in Gurgaon. This five-day training session commenced at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI).
Fortis Organ Retrieval and Transplant (FORT) in association with the Mohan Foundation is organising the third Annual FORT-MOHAN Foundation National Training Programme for transplant coordinators in Gurgaon. This five-day training session commenced today at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI).
On the back of recent stunning revelations that exposed a wide and unplumbed organ black market nexus, spanning several hospitals of repute — after a suspect involved in the Akola kidney racket spilled the beans to cops — galvanised authorities seem to be getting to the heart of the matter.
The 91st foundation day celebrations of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) kicked off with five memorial lectures on Wednesday evening. An alumni meet will be part of the main function which is scheduled for Thursday.
