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Organ Donation Spotlight: 125 Kidney Transplants at Nellore Hospital
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.
World Organ Donation Day 2026 is observed with the message that donation turns tragedy into hope.
India has progressed in transplantation, yet organ demand still far exceeds supply.
Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Nellore has performed 125 kidney transplants, including complex ABO-incompatible cases.
The hospital's nephrology unit reports 80% five-year graft survival for kidney transplants.
The department conducts over 1,500 dialysis sessions monthly while doctors urge families to register as donors.
- Who
- Donors and their families, patients with end-stage organ failure, and the Department of Nephrology at Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Nellore.
- What
- Observance of World Organ Donation Day 2026 highlighting that India's organ demand exceeds supply, alongside the hospital's kidney transplant achievements.
- Where
- Nellore, India, at Apollo Specialty Hospitals.
- When
- During the observance of World Organ Donation Day 2026.
- Why
- Transplantation delivers superior long-term outcomes for end-stage organ failure patients, while demand for organs far exceeds supply.
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










