28 March 2012
India is facing a crisis for donor livers and a statistics available said that only 500 patients out of 20,000 those who are eligible for liver transplants are getting their donor livers.
Subhash Guptha, the senior consultant for liver transplant at Apollo hospital said at the 22nd annual conference of the Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT) that a new statistics is needed for India to detail the fresh demand-supply ratio for liver transplants.
Gupta remarked that the need of liver transplantations in the western countries are mainly because of the alcohol abuse and obesity where as India is seen with the factors that are preventive.
Sandeep Guleria, the organizing secretary of ISOT said that the transplantation of human organs amendment bill recently passed by the Government of India will surely help India to have more donor livers and it will encourage cadaveric organ donation and also will improve the situation to get liver from brain-dead persons by counseling their family members. He also said that this amendment will also reduce the incidence of illegal trade of human organs.
The conference remarked that India is still low by having only a fewer specialists and liver care centre and added that the cost of liver transplant is high by Rs. 15 lakh.
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