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By Express News ServiceKOCHI: While the number of patients eligible for renal transplantations is mounting, organ supply is still largely inadequate. However, currently, only around 7,500 kidney transplantations are performed at 250 kidney transplant centres in India. India, currently, has a robust living kidney transplantation programme, the second-largest program in numbers after the USA. Transplantation from the deceased donation (brain death) has been made possible after the passing of the Transplantation of Human Organ Act, 1994. A 10 per cent donation from deceased patients can nullify the requirement of the donation from living persons..