Living donation means when a living person donates an organ to another person for transplant. The surviving donor can be a family member, such as a parent, child, brother or sister (living related charity).
The living donor can be someone who is emotionally attached to the recipient, such as a good friend, spouse or in-laws (living unrelated charity).
Who can donate kidney?
To be eligible to donate a kidney, you must be in good physical and mental health. You must be 18 years of age or older.
Some medical conditions can prevent you from becoming a donor. These include uncontrolled high blood pressure, HIV, cancer, diabetes, hepatitis, or acute infection.
How is surgery done?
You will be given an anaesthesia in the operating room. You will be asleep and will not feel any pain during the operation. Often donors and recipients are kept in adjoining operation rooms. Laparoscopy or open surgery may be performed to remove your kidney. Kidney removing surgery is called "nephrectomy."
It often takes about 3 to 6 weeks to heal from kidney removal.
