Today is a crucial day for Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital and several of its patients who are urgently waiting for kidney or liver transplants. Senior state health officials confirmed to mid-day that the hospital may be barred from all transplant lists.

A meeting between officials from the Zonal Transplant Coordination Committee (ZTCC) and the Directorate of Health Services will decide whether the hospital should be allowed to continue as a member of the organ donation and transplant list. They will also decide on the membership of the hospital’s transplant coordinator Nilesh Kamble, who was arrested two days after the kidney racket was busted. While the hospital has already been barred from carrying out live organ transplants (kidney or liver transplant from live donors), it is still a recognised cadaver donation centre. This could change today.