Our BureauCalcutta: Three city-based private hospitals with licence to conduct heart transplant have a long list of patients waiting for their turn. "We have about 30 enlisted patients in Bengal waiting for heart transplant," said Aditi Kishore Sarkar, the additional director of health services in the health department and nodal officer for organ transplant in eastern India. Metro spoke to cardiac surgeons and officials involved in organ transplant to find out the criteria for a heart transplant and how a recipient is chosen. Administrative needsOnce a patient is considered fit for heart transplant, the person is enrolled with a hospital licensed to conduct a transplant. The list is submitted to the state organ and tissue transplant organisation, the nodal agency for transplant in a state.

Source: The Telegraph May 22, 2018 20:37 UTC