Jan 3, 2024
Director of National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) Dr Anil Kumar said more men are cadaver donors but more women are living donors. "Of the total organ donations in the country, 93% were living donors. This by itself is a statement that many organ donors in the country are women donors," he said. A paper published in Experimental and Clinical Transplantation Journal in 2021 found a huge gender disparity in the country. The data analysed organ transplants in 2019 and found that 80% of the living organ donors are women, mainly the wife or the mother, while 80% of the recipients are men.
Steffy Thevar, ‘4 of 5 living organ donors in India are women, 4 of 5 recipients men: Study’, Times of India
