India, Aug. 11 -- Imagine giving a part of your own body and, with that, the gift of life to a fellow human being. Indeed, organ transplantation has been one of the biggest miracles of modern medical science. The first successful kidney transplant was from a living donor to the recipient's own twin brother, a Nobel Prize-winning feat performed in 1953 in Boston. From that date till now, hundreds of thousands of living kidney transplants have taken place across the world. But is it that simple to just donate an organ? In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Amol Mahaldar, lead consultant - nephrology and transplant physician, Manipal Hospital, Goa, explains how living organ donation works.

Dr Amol Mahaldar highlighted that the basic require...