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Mumbai: Only five kidney transplants in five years at JJ
Updated On: 29 October, 2016 08:46 AM IST | | Rupsa Chakraborty
<p>JJ Hospital claims it is unable to convince family members of patients for the procedure as most of them are not much educated about organ donation</p>
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Even as one of Mumbai’s prominent private hospitals is under the scanner for allegedly operating a kidney transplant racket, the JJ Hospital, which is the city’s largest government hospital has conducted only five kidney transplants in the last five years under the state-sponsored health scheme for the poor, Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana (RGJAY) according to data from the state’s Directorate of Health Services.
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