India’s first voluntary liver transplant registry that started on August 15, 2019 has picked up pace. In a span of two months, it has received data of 74 transplants carried out by 11 hospitals across six States.
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Initiated by the Liver Transplantation Society of India, the registry aims to collate national data of the procedures and their outcomes.
Nearly 2,000 liver transplants are carried out in the country annually, highest in the world, yet there is no India-specific data. This leaves doctors to take help from the evolved U.S. and the U.K. registries.
Hospitals from Delhi NCR, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have voluntarily reported their transplants to the registry. More hospitals are in various stages of signing up and by December.
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