Bathinda, July 26 -- A year after becoming the first government hospital in Punjab to perform a live renal transplant, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, is now set to roll out cadaveric transplants by the end of the year.

Live (living-donor) transplants entail removing a healthy portion of an organ from a living person to replace a failing organ in a recipient, whereas cadaveric transplants use an entire organs like heart, liver, kidney and eyes from a brain-dead or cardiac-dead donor with the consent of their family.

Dr Ratan Gupta, the executive director of the central institute, said the first live renal transplant surgery was performed in March last year and since then, the central institute had successf...