India, Feb. 25 -- The Madras High Court has directed the Directorate of Medical Education and Research here not to view all organ donors with scepticism, and directed it to grant permission for transplantation to a stage 5 chronic kidney disease patient with the organ donated by the brother of his maternal aunt's husband.

Justice P T Asha held that "it would be unpragmatic to assess organ donation between nonrelatives on arithmetical scales or view them with scepticism."

Hearing petitions from a patient suffering from chronic kidney disease stage V and his donor, seeking a direction to the authorisation committee of DME to grant approval for organ transplant, the court said the donor is the brother of the patient's maternal aunt's husba...