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More women donate because of their financial dependence on their husbands. “While on one hand, most donors are women, on the other only 15% of recipients are women. Corroborating this, Sonal Asthana, multi-transplant surgeon, Aster Integrated Liver Care (ILC) group, quoted another study from Gujarat that found 92% donors were women. more-inRecently, when a 35-year-old woman whose husband was to undergo a renal transplant at a corporate hospital “volunteered” to donate her kidney, doctors did not suspect any coercion. Two interviews are conducted with the donor by doctors and transplant coordinators,” said Sudarshan Ballal, nephrologist and chairman of Manipal Hospitals..