Over the years, Dr. Sunil Shroff’s work and views have been featured in newspapers, magazines, and healthcare publications covering kidney transplantation, organ donation, urology, digital health, and related areas of healthcare.
These articles, interviews, and opinion pieces reflect his involvement in clinical practice, research, public education, and healthcare advocacy. This section presents a selection of print media coverage documenting these contributions and the broader discussions in which he has participated.
How Tamil Nadu invested in sustained awareness and building trust to shape its organ donation programme About 72% of deceased organ donations in the country happens in five States – Tamil Nadu...
Helping in our genes, collective effort can boost organ donation, says Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya PUNE: Organ donation must pick up pace to match the wide gap between patients who need...
India’s Brain Death Definition: Supreme Court Reopens Debate on Medical Protocols India stands at a delicate crossroads. A recent Supreme Court order has reopened the debate on how we define...
A Death-Defining Debate There are universally recognised scientific protocols for declaring brain death, which have been developed over 60 years. Yet India still does not have a legally and clinically...
Here’s Why India’s Organ Donation System Struggles Despite Willing Donors...
Here’s Why India’s Organ Donation System Struggles Despite Willing Donors Like he did as John McClane in his ‘Die Hard’ outings, Bruce Willis is hanging in offscreen too. Just that the loud...
IIMA Hosts International Conference on Organ Donation The Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS) at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), in collaboration with MOHAN...
2nd Edition of the KIMS National Conclave 2025 Held at KIIT The Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), hosted the 2nd edition of the KIMS National Conclave 2025 at the KIIT Convention...
Manipal Hospitals Kolkata Hosts Organ Donation Summit – “Best Practices in Organ Donation” Kolkata: Manipal Hospitals, under its flagship initiative Manipal Organ Sharing & Transplant (MOST)...
Dr K M Cherian, who performed India’s first bypass surgery, dies in Bengaluru Dr K M Cherian, a pioneer heart surgeon who performed the country’s first coronary artery bypass, passed away on Saturday...
3 -day prog on cutting-edge digital health initiatives at IIM-Raipur The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Raipur, partnering with the Academy of Digital Health Sciences (ADHS), successfully...
Coventry University, Warwickshire NHS Trust Enter Organ Transplantation Tie-up Coventry University, Warwickshire NHS Trust, and University Hospitals Coventry have joined forces for organ...
AI-based system identifies right recipient for kidney transplant with 80% accuracy Artificial Intelligence can now answer a question that experienced transplant surgeons haven’t been able to — how...
Charity golf tournament raises awareness on organ donation, education The Cosmo TNGF Golf Course in Chennai hosted a charity tournament organised by MOHAN Foundation and the Rotary Club of Madras Next...
‘Blood type O. DM me’: Myanmar’s poorest are so desperate they’re turning to social media to sell their kidneys Hong Kong/New Delhi — Delivery driver Maung Maung’s wife and young daughter hadn’t eaten...
In 27 yrs, public hosps saw just 36 cadaver donations, pvt 680 Mumbai: The mood in KEM Hospital, Parel, was one of euphoria on Friday afternoon. Cardiac surgeons who hadn’t slept a wink in 36 hours...
This Doctor Returned From The UK & Inspired 2.5 Million Indians to Become Future Organ Donors Dr Sunil Shroff, a renal transplant surgeon, established the MOHAN Foundation in 1997 after facing...
State government notifies two new panels for overseeing organ transplant law Jaipur: Following the fake NoC for organ transplant scam, the state govt is now taking measures to rectify the mistakes it...
What drives the illegal organ trade in India? | In Focus podcast Dr Sunil Shroff speaks to us about organ transplant laws in India, how loopholes can be plugged to curb organ commerce, the demand...
For 1st time, yearly cadaver donations cross 1,000 in 2023 MUMBAI: For the first time, the annual number of cadaver (or deceased) donors in India crossed the four-digit mark in 2023.This is not the...
Beyond Brain Death, Sc Norms On Living Will Offer New Hope For Organ Donation The Supreme Court’s decision to streamline the processes of withdrawal of or withholding medical treatment has...
3rd edition of CII Medclave held to share best practices of digital healthcare CHENNAI: The 3rd edition of CII TN Medclave 2023 with the theme Healthcare 4.0: Decoding Digital Transformation was held...
Why are 80% of organ donors in India women? Transplant surgeons weigh in “It is easier to dissuade a man than a woman,” says Dr Sunil Shroff, urologist and managing trustee of MOHAN Foundation, an...
NGO To Hold Organ Donation Drive Chennai: MOHAN Foundation, an NGO promoting ethical organ donation, will hold a golf tournament, ‘drive to save lives’, on August 25 at Guindy Golf Course...
Why does India have so few organ donors? Experts believe that significant changes are needed to increase the donor rate in the South Asian nation.India has one of the world’s lowest rates of...
JNIMS hold workshop on organ donation Imphal, Apr 2 (DIPR) : A workshop on Strengthening of Organ Donation and Transplantation Process was held at the Conference Hall of Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of...
Explained: Changed organ donation regulations that will help the elderly Under the proposed one nation, one organ allocation’ policy, the government ends the 65-year cap for receiving cadaver...
Dr KR Balakrishnan honoured for 500-plus successful heart & lung transplants in India Dr K R Balakrishnan, Chairman – Cardiac Sciences, Director – Institute of Heart and Lung...
JNIMS conducts kidney transplant, elates CM Imphal, June 26 2022: Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) has created history in the held of kidney transplant by becoming the first...
Ruby Hall Clinic kidney transplant case: Transplants will halt if harassment continues, warn doctors associations In the wake of the kidney transplant malpractice case involving Pune’s Ruby Hall...
SABERA 2021 highlight ESG and SDG Best Practices in India Themed ‘Purpose beyond Profit’, the fourth consecutive edition of Social and Business Enterprise Responsible Awards & Summit...
Organ donation: it favours the rich now This is in response to the article ‘Organ donation-looking beyond tokenism ‘ written by Dr. Sunil Shroff and Dr. Sumana Navin (Open Page, June 10), in...
Betting on happy stories The 1990 hit film Anjali, directed by Mani Ratnam and starring popular Tollywood star Revathy, was about a mentally disabled child and the travails of the parents. It opened...
Green Corridor for vehicles transporting organs The Tamil Nadu police will provide a “Green Corridor” (non-stop thoroughfare) for vehicles transporting vital organs to any part of the State, Chennai...
Mohan Foundation educates people on need for organ donation “My daughter may not be alive today but I can feel her presence in others, who have received her organs,” said Uma Shanker, mother of...
MOHAN Foundation launches organ donation programme in Coimbatore A cultural competition for college students that included theatre, mime, poster design and collage aimed at raising organ donation...
Why family can’t decide who gets donated organ Trending New Delhi: Can a deceased donor’s family decide whom the donated organ should go to? While some developed countries allow this, India doesn’t...
Edelweiss Tokio Life unveils educational program for organ donation in 2nd edition of #NoMoreWaiting initiative Mumbai: Continuing its social initiative #NoMoreWaiting for a second year, Edelweiss...
KBC 12: Riteish Deshmukh, Dr Sunil Shroff raise awareness on organ donation Roughly, five lakh people die annually in India due to the lack of an organ donor but with less than one per million people...
Transplant organs in short supply in India during COVID-19 pandemic BANGALORE — As September rolled in, Mr Kamlesh Gadage visited the hospital for the 10th time in eight months. The 36-year-old...
An organic decline HYDERABAD: Sixty eight-year-old Arumugam* joined the transplant waitlist for a liver in March this year. Six months down the line, with the pandemic having rewritten the norms of...
Plans afoot to rope in more private hospitals, ease process The organ donation rate in India has increased from 0.08 to almost 0.8 per million population in a span of nine years. But the entire...
Organ donations in Tamil Nadu drop by 12% in one year CHENNAI: On Monday, as the state health minister boasted about how Tamil Nadu has secured awards for organ donation consecutively for four year...
‘Brain dead’ babies too can donate organs now Trending MUMBAI: A panel of medical experts has drafted guidelines to tackle the ambiguity over declaring brain deaths in the paediatric age group...
Youngsters steer India’s organ donation drive The Indian youth’s sense of altruism and love for social action are emerging as the mainstay of the country’s organ donation and...
Organs going waste in Chennai, say surgeons Trending CHENNAI: State organ transplant authority Transtan’s message three months ago to all hospitals to ensure organs are not alloted to foreign patients...
Time to look beyond numbers Dynamic trauma care centres offering state-of-the-art medical care to accident victims will not just save lives but also improve the quality of organs that come into the...
An initiative to bust myths on organ donation A Tamil movie starring actor Sivakarthikeyan portrays a hospital administering carbon monoxide to patients to render them brain dead for harvesting...
Tamil Nadu loses top spot but gains in use of organs Tamil Nadu saw a double hand transplant, a multivisceral transplant including part of a stomach, highest number of lung transplants and maximum...
Life, In Parts | Good Companions The GoodJewellers by profession, the two were active in public life and, through the Jaipur Citizens Forum, were encouraging eye donation when they met Sunil Shroff...
TN continues to top in organ donation Chennai: For the fourth consecutive year, Tamilnadu tops the list in organ donation in India. Reports suggest the Transplant Authority of Tamilnadu (Transtan) has...
Youths turn saviours, breathe life into India’s organ donation drive Fifteen-year-old Mumbai resident Vaibhav Sanghavi had just completed his Class X exams in 2016 when he was asked a question that is...
Qutub turns green for organ donation NEW DELHI: The iconic Qutub Minar was on Saturday evening lit up in bright green to highlight the cause of organ donation — conventionally represented by a green...
Dr Palin advocates deceased organ donation in State Imphal, December 23 2017: Saying that the demand for organ donors in the State is huge, Managing Director of Shija Hospital and Research Institute...
Medical experts deliberate on organ transplantation Imphal, December 22 2017: The Department of Surgery, JNIMS organised a meet on the Continuing Medical Education (CME) on Deceased Organ Donation...
Tamil Nadu seeks to harvest organs from cardiac arrest patients CHENNAI: Will doctors be allowed to retrieve vital organs from a patient who is on life support after a cardiac arrest but has been...
Doctor couple from Amravati wants to donate brain-dead infant’s organs MUMBAI: Love transcends tragedy. A doctor couple from Amravati whose three-month-old baby is brain-dead following a road...
Doctors, engineers mull drones to carry organs over 250 km CHENNAI: Doctors and engineers are looking at unmanned machines in the skies as a safe route to healthcare. From transporting urine and poop...
Art takes the Green Line CHENNAI: It’s 6 pm on a Sunday evening and as we reach the Vadapalani CMRL station, the music compositions of Thyagaraja and Muthuswami Dikshitar, rendered by the famous...
Leader among states, TN needs to overhaul to be even better CHENNAI: In 2008, when the government was planning a series of orders to encourage cadaver organ donation, Dr Ashokan and Dr Pushpanjali...
Include brain death as ‘a definition’ for death’ in central At: Transplant experts INDORE: Transplant experts on Saturday gave a call for including brain death as one of the...
Harvesting new rules for better organ transplants CHENNAI: Nearly a decade after Tamil Nadu launched the cadaver organ programme and became a role model in the country, senior transplant surgeons and...
Tales from Tamil Nadu’s Organ Transplant Capital Chennai CHENNAI: In the 80s and early 90s, the south of Chennai was the hub of organ commerce, and the story of city’s kidney trade drew eyes of...
Organ Donation: What Tamil Nadu Got Right New Delhi: In the last 8 years, a total of 4,938 organs have been transplanted in Tamil Nadu, according to Transplant Authourity of Tamil Nadu (TRANSTAN). The...
Heroes pass it on to save lives CHENNAI: Organ transplantation is the only way for survival for people who are in last stages of organ failure. Every year, over 2.5 lakh deaths in India are attributed...
Financing organ transplant still a patient’s headache across India MUMBAI: Liver transplants are no longer so rare in India that they should make news, but there was a special aspect to the...
Need an organ? Chances of getting one are better at a private hospital It’s illegal to buy organs in India but money can still help people with organ failure get a replacement. People on the...
Pawan Kalyan appointed as ‘Jeevan Dhaan’ brand ambassador AMARAVATI: Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan met Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on monday to discuss about the...
JJ Hospital’s 1st cadaver organ donation gives new life to 2 MUMBAI: The 172-year-old JJ Hospital in Byculla made its first contribution to the organ donation programme on Sunday, two decades after...
Training programme for transplant coordinators held MOHAN Foundation, under the aegis of the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), is holding its eighth one-month transplant...
Tuberculosis in kidney recipients high, awareness low Chennai: With India known to have the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) cases, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), immense...
Ukrainian 1st foreigner to receive heart in India MUMBAI: A Ukrainian woman became the first foreign national to undergo a life-saving heart transplant at a city hospital on Monday. The 27-year-old...
Beliefs hamper organ donation Chennai: Despite the fact that the country has come so far in terms of organ donations over the past few years, religious beliefs continue to serve as a barrier...
Organ donation: Driving licence can have consent Chennai: Getting the consent of family members for the donation of their deceased kin’s organs has been a challenge for years. However, when...
Tamil Nadu leads in kidney donations Chennai: Tamil Nadu has been recognised for its efforts in organ donation. Even so, the demand supply gap continues to be enormous. On this World Kidney Day...
To help the living, India’s hospitals need a uniform definition of death Organ donations are hampered because of this ambiguity, says Dr Sunil Shroff. Death has become a commodity. That was the...
Sushma Swaraj’s kidney transplant brings the long wait for organs back into focus On December 10, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj underwent a kidney transplant surgery at the All India...
State’s organ donation programme earns praise The nation’s target will be to attain Tamil Nadu’s rate of cadaveric organ donation of 1.3 per million people within the next two years...
Beyond Brain Death, Sc Norms On Living Will Offer New Hope For Organ Donation MUMBAI: How can I sell my kidney? This question has been posed so often to Mohan Foundation, an NGO that works towards...
‘Brain death certification still a challenge’ NEW DELHI: Calling for a social movement to promote organ donation, health minister JP Nadda said the gap between organ demand and...
Passion and challenge fuel coordinator’s choice of profession NEW DELHI: Transplant coordinators are the unsung champions of the world of organ donation. Most stories about organ donations are...
How the dead can give a new lease of life Should hospitals rely solely on donor hearts from brain dead patients whose hearts were still beating? Tamil Nadu state organ transplant registry convener Dr...
How transplant pricing fails the patient The act of donating an organ is altruistic, but transplantation is way too expensive for most middle class people and certainly for the poor. In India, about...
Wanted: A national organ registry that works India was once a country where the poor received a pittance for selling their organs, while a section of doctors, hospitals and brokers cashed in on what...
A wall of honour for organ donors To honour donors whose organs helped save many lives and their families who consented to the donation, Fortis Malar Hospital in the city has set up a ‘Wall of...
TOI campaign: Time to sign up for organ donation NEW DELHI: Increasing levels of awareness have ensured that the number of people coming forward to donate their organs after death has gone up three...
Mumbai police suspect poor targeted for organs in kidney transplant racket MUMBAI, July 19 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in Mumbai said they suspect a criminal gang which preys on poor...
Deceased organ donation is the way to go Dr. Sumanth Raman and Dr. George Paul ’s articles (Open Page, June 17) merit a response to set the record straight. To pay or not to pay is the fundamental...
Record 21 families donated cadaver organs this month Chennai: From being a hotbed for kidney racketeers to leading the organ donation drive in the country, Tamil Nadu over the past eight years has...
Bumping up the death rate On a dark night with little or no street lighting in some localities in and around Chennai, is it safe to ride a two-wheeler? What are the chances that you might hit a speed...
India’s organ deficiency: How struggle for second chance at life gets extremely difficult Anita Singh, a 40-year-old from Noida with both her kidneys failed, sold her house earlier this year so...
Why is Kollywood so taken up with organ transplant crimes? The idea of kidnapping an unknown person, administering carbon monoxide and harvesting their organs may make a thrilling plot for a movie...
Expert rues lack of organ transplant facility Patna: The 91st foundation day celebrations of Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) kicked off with five memorial lectures on Wednesday evening. An...
Harish’s selfless act could make him state’s Hitendran TN’s organ donation campaign turned dramatically after 2008 Will Harish Nanjappa be the ‘Hitendran’ of Karnataka? The heartbreaking story of this...
Medical Transport Drones Could Transform Health Care in Overcrowded Cities One day in early June 2014, the heart from a brain-dead 27-year-old man, a car crash victim, was sped from one hospital to...
I support O campaign held in Chennai To support this campaign, a car rally was also organised for healthcare professionals To promote the cause of organ donation in India, The I Support O Campaign was...
Institutionalising organ donation: Crack down on dubious “good Samaritans” that play middlemen “Hai . ravi from kakinada . age 30. o positive. 8 lacks money ergent plss cont. 99xxxxxx9”...
‘Country must aim for one per million organ donor rate by 2020’ MUMBAI: Advocates of organ donation from across the country gathered at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Andheri on Friday to deliberate on...
Kerala’s transplant registry comes alive The State’s Deceased Donor Organ Transplantation Programme has got yet another fillip now that the programme has been put completely in the public domain, to...
Have a Heart Too few people in India donate their organs. But there is hope yet Shah-e-Tara Jasrotia, 64, flaunts a few words in faded green across her arm. “It is a tattoo,” she says...
13,000 sign up for organ donation CHENNAI: In less than a month, about 13,000 IT professionals, doctors, policemen and healthcare workers pledged their organs in a donation drive, Daan (Donate Organ...
Women are more generous organ donors, stats show CHENNAI: This year, on World Kidney Day on Thursday, healthcare workers in city are planning programmes to felicitate women — not just because it is...
From grief to joy! The inspiring story of a social entrepreneur Dr Sunil Shroff, professor and head of the department, Urology and Renal Transplantation at the Sri Ramachandra Medical College and...
TN to help state boost donation of cadavers MUMBAI: Till a few years ago, Tamil Nadu was infamous for rampant kidney sales. But a slew of corrective measures has ensured Tamil Nadu’s transition...
World Health Organisation hails State’s performance in cadaver transplantation Tamil Nadu’s recent experience with the cadaver transplantation programme came in for commendation at a...
State organ registry marks 100th transplant in two years CHENNAI: When the doctors at KG Hospital in Coimbatore declared a 38-year-old road traffic victim brain dead on Saturday, the state cadaver...
Police chief mulls green corridor’ for speedy transport of harvested human organs CHENNAI: Transporting human organs from the donor (cadaver) to the needy may no longer pose a problem in terms...
With three calls, organ registry has busy day CHENNAI: It was one of busiest days at the Central Organ Registry the nodal agency working from the Government General Hospital to network hospitals for...
Ending days of suspense, brain-dead boy dies CHENNAI: Eight-year-old Nanjil Valavan lying in the intensive care unit of the Government General Hospital here, declared brain dead by doctors, died on...
Organ donation in state on upswing CHENNAI: Almost 10 years ago, evendoctors hesitated to declare a road traffic accident victim brain-dead.Campaigns for harvesting organs of brain-dead patients were...
25% of India’s transplants take place in Chennai CHENNAI: Long years of struggle convincing relatives of brain-dead patients to give their consent for organ donation appears to be paying off...
State’s organ registration initiative never took off CHENNAI: The MGR medical university went to town announcing the inauguration of the Central Organ Registry in the city on July 11, 1997...
India’s Black Market Organ Scandal Shocked but not surprised. That might be the best way to sum up India’s reaction to the revelation this week that a black market organ transplant ring had been...
Get a gift of life from cadavers NEW DELHI: It’s supposed to be the best line of treatment for many diseases. And often, the only one for fatally-ill patients suffering from renal or liver...
For a cadaveric transplant programme ONE of the objectives of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 was to clear the decks legally for the development of a cadaver-based organ transplantation...