Gurgaon-based Sonali Chatterjee recently took to social media platform Facebook to speak about how health insurers refused to issue a policy to her after she declared that she had donated a kidney in 2002. She was looking for a new policy as she was unable to renew the existing one.
While more people are now pledging to donate their organs after death, live organ donation is still in its nascent stage in the country. According to government-run National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation, in 2013, India had 313 deceased organ donors, which increased to 905 in 2017. But numbers on the live donation front look disappointing. According to a news report, for every 200,000 people waiting for a kidney transplant, only 10,000 are able to find a donor. Most kidney transplants are done through live donations.
