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World J Transplant. Jun 24, 2016; 6(2): 331-335
Published online Jun 24, 2016. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v6.i2.331
State of deceased donor transplantation in India: A model for developing countries around the world
Georgi Abraham, Madhusudan Vijayan, Natarajan Gopalakrishnan, Sunil Shroff, Joseph Amalorpavanathan, Anand Yuvaraj, Sanjeev Nair, Saravanan Sundarrajan
Georgi Abraham, Sunil Shroff, Anand Yuvaraj, Sanjeev Nair, Saravanan Sundarrajan, Madras Medical Mission Hospital, Chennai 600037, India
Madhusudan Vijayan, Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai 600010, India
Natarajan Gopalakrishnan, Joseph Amalorpavanathan, Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, Chennai 600003, India
Author contributions: Abraham G, Vijayan M, Yuvaraj A, Nair S and Shroff S wrote the manuscript; Gopalakrishnan N, Sundarrajan S and Amalorpavanathan J provided the data and reviewed the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None declared by the authors.
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Correspondence to: Georgi Abraham, MBBS, MD, FRCP (Glas), Madras Medical Mission Hospital, No. 4-A, Dr. J. Jayalalitha Nagar, Mogappair, Chennai 600037, India. abraham_georgi@yahoo.com
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Received: January 13, 2016
Peer-review started: January 15, 2016
First decision: February 29, 2016
Revised: May 11, 2016
Accepted: May 31, 2016
Article in press: June 2, 2016
Published online: June 24, 2016
Core Tip

Core tip: Deceased donor transplantation (DDT) has been increasing in India, especially in the southern states due to proactive policies of the state governments and public private partnership. With the goal of achieving maximum organ harvesting from potential organ donors and universal access to transplant services, small steps of improvement have been made. The DDT program in India has to keep progressively expanding to cater to the end-stage renal disease affected population of India.