Organ Donation after Circulatory Determination of Death in India: A Joint Position Paper.

Unlabelled: Organ donation following circulatory determination of death (DCDD) has contributed significantly to the donor pool in several countries. In India, majority of deceased donations happen following brain death (BD). While existing legislation allows for DCDD, there have been only few reports of kidney transplantation following DCDD from India.

Organ commercialism, trafficking and transplant tourism.

The gap between demand and supply of organs continues to widen worldwide, encouraging transplant commercialism. While solid organ commerce is most prevalent in impoverished countries, commercialisation of body parts such as tissues is prevalent in economically developed countries. A number of international legal instruments and transplant societies define, condemn, and criminalise these practices and have issued statements related to organ commercialism.

Heart transplantation in India-looking back as we celebrate 25 years of the transplant law.

India's heart transplantation programme is the number one programme in South Asia with an average heart transplantation rate of 0.2 per million population (pmp) versus the global average of 1.06 pmp (2016-2018).