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Citizens of age 65 and above can also receive an organ from a dead donor. Previously, the ministry had put an age cap of 65 years for receiving organs but now, that has been revised so that the elderly can also register on waiting list. However, one point has been reiterated by officials that the preference will be give to younger recipients but from now on, people above the age of 65 will also be given the opportunity to access this process. Officials also state that younger and healthier people will be given preference because they have more years of life left. Recipients Now Do Not Need To Pay A Fee To Register To increase access to organ transplant, the Health Ministry has also done away with the domicile requirement and fee for registration. "People in need of transplant can go to any hospital in any state and register to receive an organ from a deceased donor," the official said according to reports. Govt Has Done Away With The Age Cap On Organ Recipients There was n...

There is a small, but growing, subset of livers that have been transplanted and have a cumulative age of more than 100 years, according to researchers from University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and TransMedics, Andover, Massachusetts. They studied these livers to identify characteristics to determine why these organs are so resilient, paving the way for considering the potential expanded use of older liver donors.For these centurion livers, the average donor age was significantly higher, 84.7 years compared with 38.5 years for non-centurion liver transplants. The researchers noted that for a liver to make it to 100, they expected to find an older average donor age as well as healthier donors. Notably, the donors from the centurion group had lower incidence of diabetes and fewer donor infections. There are 11,113 patients on liver transplant waiting list as of September 22, 2022. As Dr. Hwang noted, using older liver donors more often could potentially expand th...