• The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by an NGO regarding the insufficient infrastructure and healthcare facilities in government hospitals for organ donation in India.

• Despite a high willingness among people to donate, India faces a severe shortage of organs for transplantation, with only 0.86 donations per million population in 2022.

• The petitioner highlighted a 2018 study on posthumous organ donation willingness that revealed Colombia and India exhibited the highest rates, of 75% and 74% respectively.

• This starkly contrasts with the demand for approximately 5 lakh organs annually, with only 2-3% of the demand met.

• The petitioner urged compliance with transplantation laws, specifically Sections 14 and 14-A of the Transplantation of Human Organ (Amendment) Act 2011, and registration with NOTTO.

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