Organ Transplant
Organ Transplant Surgery in India
India runs one of the largest living-donor transplant programmes in the world. For international patients the process is tightly regulated: transplants are permitted from a near relative or a documented altruistic donor, with mandatory authorisation-committee approval and embassy attestation of the relationship.
What care looks like in India
Every international transplant in India requires a genuine, documented relationship between donor and recipient, approval by the hospital authorisation committee and, for foreign nationals, attestation from the patient's embassy. Commercial organ donation is illegal and no accredited hospital will proceed without the full legal file.
Plan for an extended stay. Kidney transplant recipients remain in India for roughly six to eight weeks, liver transplant recipients for eight to twelve, with weekly monitoring of drug levels and graft function before travel home is approved.
Why patients choose India for organ transplant
- High-volume living-donor kidney and liver programmes with dedicated transplant ICUs and infectious-disease support.
- Paediatric liver transplant expertise for biliary atresia and metabolic liver disease is concentrated in a handful of very experienced units.
- Transplant costs are a fraction of European or Gulf pricing while immunosuppression protocols follow the same international guidelines.
- Structured donor workup and counselling, including independent assessment of donor fitness and consent.
Cost guides in this speciality
- Kidney TransplantStay 6–8 weeks · 95–97% one-year graft survival in living-donor transplants$13,500 – $22,000
- Liver TransplantStay 8–12 weeks · 90–92% one-year survival in elective living-donor transplants$32,000 – $48,000
- Lung TransplantStay 10–14 weeks · 80–85% survival at 1 year in appropriately selected recipients$32,000 – $65,000
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