Bathinda, March 13 -- A week after performing the first live renal transplant in any government hospital in Punjab, the management of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bathinda, is now working to set up an organ retrieval bank, to boost cadaveric transplants.

Live transplants are done when patients get a kidney or other organ from a blood-related donor, whereas under cadaveric transplants, organs are harvested from the deceased with consent of the deceased's families.

Executive director of the central institute Meenu Singh told reporters on Wednesday that as AIIMS has achieved a benchmark in organ transplant, experts will help in establishing the bank to boost harvest of multiple organs to save precious lives.

Singh ...