Who can be an organ donor? In India any one can be an organ donor it doesn't matter age caste, religion, community, current or past medical conditions, but if you have active cancer, active HIV, active infection or intravenous drug use are some of the contraindications you may not be able to donate How does someone become an organ donor? In India someone can become an organ donor by signing up for organ donation. How does the country and doctors decide who gets organs from the organ donors? In India Doctors may decide who gets an organ by Doctors will take blood and tissue test that will be used to match you with a donor. This is because your immune system may see the new organ a foreign and reject it. Can you buy organs legally in this country? Before the passage of the Transplantation of Human Organs Act in 1994 India had a successful legal market in organ trading. Low cost and availability brought in business from around the globe and transformed India into one of the largest kidney transplant center in the world, but then several problems started rising. For example in some cases patients were unaware a kidney transplant procedure even took place. Other problems included patients being promised an amount much higher that what was actually paid. Due to the problems surfacing it lead to the government banning the sale of organs. Is there a black market for organs in this country? A Black market is an illegal traffic or trade in officially controlled or scarce commodities. In India there is a black market. Selling organs on the black market is an uncommon practice in India, China, Bangladesh The issue was brought to mainstream in 2008, the same year that Indian police busted a ring of doctors who sold as many as 500 kidney over a decade to rich foreigners, but media coverage has died down. In India the Black market is run by Mumbai and hes brother Amit Kumar. Who were arrested for money theft and doing illegal operation on a person without them knowing they're taking an organ. Poor people would sell their organs to pay debts, food and pay their daughters husband to marry her. Additional information: -500,000 people die because of non-availability of organs -200,000 people doe of liver disease -500,000 people die from heart disease -150,000 people await a kidney transplant but only 5,000 get one -1,000,000 lakh people suffer from corneal blindness and await transplant -Population of 1.2 billion people -Stastic stands at .08 person as organ donor