2023 saw highest-ever organ transplants in India, 63% of living donors were women: NOTTO report
- Data released by the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) shows 2023 saw the highest ever organ transplants in India.
Highlights:
- Of the total 18,378 organ transplants in the country in 2023 the highest-ever in a year 10% were to foreign nationals
- While more than six of 10 living organ donors were women
- According to the data, 63% living donors were women while 77% of deceased donors were men.
- Among the recipients, 30% were women, with their proportion being the highest among lung recipients at 47%.
- The country also saw 197 lung transplants, says the data.
- India achieved another milestone in 2023: more than 1,000 deceased organ donors in a year for the first time, breaching its record from last year
- Deceased-donor transplants have soared from 837 in 2013 to 2,935 in 2023.
- Foreigners are allocated organs from deceased donors only when there are no Indian patients at the state, regional, or national level who matches.
- The data also shows there were eight domino transplants in the country.
- Under the procedure, if donor A is not a match for recipient A but recipient B, and donor B is a match for recipient A, the organs are exchanged among the donor recipient pair.
Prelims Takeaway
- Organ Transplant