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Organ Donation Spotlight: 125 Kidney Transplants at Nellore Hospital

Organ Donation Spotlight: 125 Kidney Transplants at Nellore Hospital
Organ donation: Turning loss into life · thehansindia.com

Sometimes people get very sick and their kidneys, livers, hearts, or lungs stop working.

Doctors can help them with a transplant, which means putting a healthy organ from another person inside them.

The person who gives the organ is called a donor.

Donors and their families show great kindness because they give life even when they are very sad.

In India, many more people need organs than there are organs to give.

A hospital in Nellore has helped 125 people get new kidneys.

Most of those patients are still doing well five years later.

The hospital also helps many people with dialysis, a machine that cleans the blood.

Doctors say we should talk to our families and become organ donors.

That way, when one life ends, it can begin many new ones.

Key facts

Occasion
World Organ Donation Day 2026
Hospital
Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Nellore
Department
Nephrology
Kidney transplants performed
125
Five-year graft survival
80%
Monthly dialysis sessions
Over 1,500
Leading transplant indication
Kidney disease
Country
India

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