On World Kidney Day, which coincides with the International Women’s Day, doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) reveal that more than the two-thirds of the living kidney donors at the hospital are women. These women, sometimes under pressure, sometimes out of love for their men donate their kidneys. The condition for women donors worsened when in 1994 the government passed ‘Transplantation of human organ and tissue Act’, under which, a near-relative i.e, a spouse can donate kidneys. Doctors also revealed that while 70 percent of the kidney donors are women, only less than one-third receive kidneys when needed. In India, about 2.5 lakh people require kidney transplant every year.

Source: dna March 09, 2018 00:30 UTC