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A.P. Jeevandan has crossed 300 organ transplantations successful 2025 calendar year, a grounds successful the State’s Medical and Health Department’s history.
Minister for Health Satya Kumar Yadav termed the accomplishment a “historic milestone for nationalist healthcare successful Andhra Pradesh”. This is simply a testament to beardown organization systems, aesculapian excellence and the life-saving interaction of organ donation, helium added.
The fig of deceased donors saw a dependable summation year-on-year, with the highest being 93 successful 2025. The full fig of donors betwixt 2020 and 2025 was 244, of whom 175 were antheral and 61 were female. The full fig of organs retrieved was 795. Of this, 301 were retrieved successful 2025 itself.
The 51-60 property radical had the highest fig of deceased donors astatine 52. The lowest fig was successful the 11-20 property radical astatine 21.
The full fig of unrecorded organ transplantations during 2020-25 was 1,740, which includes 1,697 kidney and 43 liver transplantations. “The unrecorded transplants pertain mostly to household members oregon adjacent relatives, whose humor radical matches with that of the patient. Though determination is an summation successful consciousness among the nationalist connected organ donation, the effect is acold from satisfactory,” said K. Rambabu, Chief Transplant Coordinator, A.P. Jeevandan.
“Nearly 50% of roadworthy mishap victims spell into brain-death. If adjacent a tiny proportionality of these individuals donate organs, determination volition beryllium nary organ shortage. Unfortunately, owed to spiritual beliefs, superstitions and societal issues, household members and relatives shy distant from organ donation,” helium says.
The Visakha Institute of Medical Science (VIMS) is the archetypal infirmary and the lone infirmary successful the authorities assemblage successful A.P. to behaviour a liver transplant surgery, added Dr. Rambabu, who is besides Director of VIMS.
