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Monday, Jun 30, 2025
Among United Nations member countries, Iran is the only one that has legalised organ trade.
However, the organ donors are reluctant to reveal the location where the surgeries took place.
Sabith was produced before a local court on Monday which remanded him to judicial custody.
As per reports, the accused takes people to Iran, where their organs are surgically removed at a hospital.
The kidney was provided by eGenesis of Cambridge, Massachusetts, from a pig that had been genetically edited to remove genes harmful to a human recipient and add certain human genes to improve compatibility.
This is the first time that an organ transplant surgery has been performed at a district-level government hospital in India.
Harinarayanan has received the heart of Kanyakumari native Selvin Shekhar (36), whose brain death was confirmed by doctors at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.
Despite extensive research over the years, the creation of fully functional human organs in a lab is not yet feasible. As a result, organ replacement from donors is the standard of care worldwide.
As the organs of young children are relatively small, there are complications in implanting them in elderly people.
The hospital issued a statement denying that doctors had wrongfully issued a brain death certificate for the victim who had suffered severe head injuries in accident.
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