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#5. Turning Loss into Life: How One Doctor's Organ-Donation Revolution Is Creating an Extraordinary Legacy

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AmickyCarol, The AVOCADO Foundation & Humanise Live
Published
Fri 25 Jul 2025
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In this revelatory conversation, urologist-turned-activist Dr Sunil Shroff joins AmickyCarol to show how one ordinary surgeon sparked an extraordinary movement—turning India’s reputation for illegal kidney trade into a blueprint for ethical, life-saving transplants. From London’s NHS wards to Chennai’s ICUs, Shroff proves that death can be recast as a celebration of life when families choose to give the gift of organs.

  • Started as a urological surgeon in England’s NHS after low pay drove him from India
  • Returned 12 years later to confront the country’s underground kidney market
  • Pioneered India’s first deceased-donor protocols after the 1994 brain-death law
  • Founded MOHAN Foundation to normalise donation through education and coordination
  • Devised the “eyes-first” approach that eases families toward full organ consent
  • Built hospital-sharing networks so every viable organ finds a recipient
  • Trained transplant coordinators who secure 70-80 % consent from grieving families
  • Partnered with the UK’s NHS to raise donor rates in minority communities
  • Advises 46 Commonwealth nations on best practice in organ procurement
  • Offers affordable online courses in transplant coordination, grief counselling and advocacy
  • Left full-time surgery in 2015 to devote 70 % of his time to nonprofit work
“Death is not extinguishing light—it’s only putting out the lamp because dawn has come.”
 —Rabindranath Tagore, quoted by Dr Shroff


Take action: Register as an organ donor and tell your family. One donor can save up to eight lives.

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