Anita Singh, a 40-year-old from Noida with both her kidneys failed, sold her house earlier this year so that she could continue to pay for her dialysis.

Singh has been waiting for a transplant for nearly eight months and needs dialysis twice a week. Her husband Virendra Kumar’s kidney isn’t a match and relatives couldn’t provide her any respite either. Her husband and she have approached five hospitals in the National Capital Region for an O+ donor.

Like around 170,000 others who live with failed kidneys, she is still waiting.

While statistics show donations are not nearly enough to meet the requirements, the issue is not just about getting more people to donate organs. The country needs to gear up its infrastructure to address shortages and also prevent wastage of organs that do get donated, said transplant specialists as well as government and non-government organisations. Cost is prohibitive in private hospitals and government hospitals often don’t have the facilities or trained manpower…..Readmore