Despite performing the world's third-highest number of solid organ transplants, India is meeting only a small fraction of its actual transplant need, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia. The study projects that demand for kidney, liver, heart, and lung transplantation will continue to rise through 2040, while even optimistic improvements in transplant capacity may fall short of bridging the gap.
Using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation, and population projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, researchers estimated India's current and future transplant requirements across four major organs. The analysis is the first to provide a population-level estimate of the country's unmet transplant need and model how different policy scenarios could…
