Lucknow, March 26 -- When it comes to organ transplants, especially kidney and liver, Uttar Pradesh is several rungs down the ladder than Gujarat, Delhi, Maharashtra and many southern states.

Even as hundreds await transplants in the state, one of the ways to bring down the long waiting list is cadaver transplant, a process that involves organ transfers from deceased or brain-dead patients to recipients in need.

In 2022, UP saw only one cadaver kidney and four cadaver liver transplants. Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh and several others have their figures more than 10 times of U.P's, recent data from National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) suggested.

NOTTO works for the Centre's Ministry of Hea...