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Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare Minister Satya Kumar Yadav has said that Andhra Pradesh has secured the sixth presumption successful the state successful organ donation, according to the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation nether the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare successful its State-wise organ donation study for 2025.
In a connection issued connected Tuesday, the Minister attributed the accomplishment to sustained consciousness campaigns conducted crossed the State nether the Jeevandan strategy since its motorboat successful 2015.
The fig of hospitals performing organ transplant surgeries has risen from 3 to nine. They see King George Hospital and VIMS successful Visakhapatnam, Government General Hospitals successful Guntur, Kurnool and Vijayawada, SVIMS successful Tirupati, AIIMS successful Mangalagiri, Padmavathi Children’s Hospital successful Tirupati, and the Kidney Research Centre and Super Speciality Hospital successful Palasa.
At a reappraisal meeting, Jeevandan Trust coordinator K. Rambabu informed the Minister that indispensable permissions person been granted to hospitals successful Kakinada, Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Ongole, Anantapur, Kadapa and Tirupati for organ retrieval and proscription from brain-dead patients. The Minister directed officials to further summation the fig of transplants successful authorities hospitals.
Officials said that this twelvemonth 8 kidney transplants and 1 liver transplant person been performed utilizing organs from brain-dead donors astatine authorities hospitals, including KGH and VIMS successful Visakhapatnam, and the Government General Hospitals successful Guntur and Kurnool. A bosom transplant was besides performed astatine a backstage infirmary successful Vijayawada.
Organs retrieved from 18 brain-dead donors person helped 64 patients successful the archetypal 2 months of this year. In the corresponding play past year, 31 transplants were carried retired with organs from 12 donors. In 2024, 30 transplants were performed with enactment from 10 brain-dead donors.
Since the strategy began successful 2015, arsenic galore arsenic 1,200 patients person benefited from Jeevandan. In 2025 alone, 301 patients person received organ transplants truthful far.
According to the Jeevandan Trust, galore patients awaiting transplants are successful the 20 to 50 property group. A full of 5,347 radical are presently registered for assorted organ transplants, including 38 children beneath 9 years.
Under G.O. 95, the State authorities accords State honours to organ donors and provides fiscal assistance of ₹10,000 to their families. The Minister said the authorities is considering enhancing the assistance to ₹1 lakh.
