ITN Vol 1; Issue 3, 1999

Live Related Liver Transplants - A Beginning Made in India

FORTE (Foundation for Organ Retrieval and Transplant Education) Bangalore was the first NGO to start work in the field of organ donation and transplantation in India. Rebecca Thomas, Honorary Secretary of FORTE describes her pioneering experience in this issue of ITN.

“...When four of the seven listed paediatric patients waiting for liver transplant died at St. John's Bangalore, it became obvious that for children different strategies would have to be adopted. One patient Deepika's parents were desperate enough to try living donor transplant, but the string of widely publicized failures of liver transplant at other centres in India was a major concern...”