Transplant
Here, the law matters more than the price.
Transplant is the one area we coordinate where the binding constraint is not cost or surgical skill. It is donor eligibility, and it is governed by legislation that does not bend.
Organ transplantation in India is regulated by the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act. Living donation is permitted from defined categories of relatives, and anything outside that requires approval from an authorisation committee, which examines the relationship to satisfy itself that no payment is involved.
Any organ trade is a criminal offence. If a company offers to find you a donor, walk away and report them. We will not work with anyone who does, and no legitimate hospital will either.
What this means for you
You bring the donor. That is the starting point.
This is the single fact that determines whether a transplant abroad is possible for you at all, and most people do not realise it until late.
For an international patient, a living donor transplant means travelling with your own donor, who is usually a close relative. Both of you are assessed medically, and the relationship is documented and verified through a legal process before anything is scheduled.
Deceased donor organs are allocated through national and state waiting lists that prioritise residents. An international patient should not expect access to those, and anyone implying otherwise is misleading you.
So the first questions are not about hospitals or cost. They are whether you have a willing donor, whether they are medically suitable, and whether the relationship fits what the law recognises.
The part people plan for least
A transplant is a lifelong commitment, not an operation.
After a transplant you take immunosuppressant medicines for as long as the organ works. Their levels are monitored through regular blood tests, and doses are adjusted on those results. Getting that wrong risks rejection on one side and infection on the other.
That monitoring happens where you live, for years, long after our ninety days ends. So the question that decides whether this is workable is not who performs the surgery. It is who manages your immunosuppression at home, and whether they have agreed to.
We ask that question in the first conversation. If the answer is that nobody at home has agreed to take it on, that needs solving before anything else.
Settle these before you travel
- Which clinician at home will manage your immunosuppression
- Whether your medicines are available and funded where you live
- How often you will need blood monitoring, and who orders it
- What happens if you show signs of rejection at home
- Who your home team contacts at the transplant centre, and how
- Your donor’s follow-up, which is a real medical need and often forgotten
How we help
What we would do, and what we will not.
What we do
- Arrange an independent specialist review of whether transplant is the right option for you now, and what the alternatives are
- Establish what the current legal and documentation requirements actually are
- Identify centres with genuine volume in your specific transplant type, anywhere in India
- Obtain net pricing in writing, including donor workup and the donor’s stay
- Coordinate the practical journey for both you and your donor
- Build the handover so your team at home can manage immunosuppression properly
What we will never do
- Find, introduce or arrange a donor. This is illegal and we will not be near it
- Work with any intermediary who offers to
- Suggest a way around the authorisation process
- Tell you a deceased donor organ can be arranged for an international patient
- Promise a timeline before donor assessment and legal approval are complete
- Diagnose, prescribe or manage your immunosuppression
Questions
What people ask about transplant abroad.
Can you help me find a donor?
No. Never. Organ trade is a criminal offence in India and arranging donors is not something any legitimate company does. Living donation comes from your own family within the categories the law recognises, verified through a legal process. If anyone offers you a donor, that is a signal to walk away and report it.
How long does the approval process take?
It depends on the relationship, the documentation, the state and the centre. Anyone giving you a firm timeline before your donor has been assessed and the paperwork reviewed is guessing. We would rather tell you it is uncertain than invent a date you plan around.
Will my kidney doctor at home look after me afterwards?
Many will, and it needs agreeing before you travel rather than after. This is the single most important conversation in the whole process. If your nephrologist will not take on post-transplant management, going abroad is probably not workable, and we would say so early.
Is my donor looked after too?
They should be, and their follow-up is a genuine medical need that gets forgotten surprisingly often. Donor assessment, donor recovery and donor follow-up are part of what we would coordinate and part of what should be in the written pricing.
What are the alternatives to transplant?
Depending on your condition, continued dialysis, optimising medical management, or waiting for a deceased donor offer at home may be reasonable. An independent review covers whether transplant now is the right call, not just how to arrange one.
Start with whether transplant abroad is workable for you at all.
Twenty minutes, free. We will ask about your donor and your follow-up before we talk about cost.