{
  "id": 678130,
  "title": "World Organ Donation Day 2026: Mumbai Faces Severe Shortage As Nearly 5,000 Patients Await Transplants; Only Around 10% Receive Donor Support",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/world-organ-donation-day-2026-mumbai-faces-severe-shortage-as-nearly",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-12T15:39:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/world-organ-donation-day-2026-mumbai-faces-severe-shortage-as-nearly-5000-patients-await-transplants-only-around-10-receive-donor-support"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai, August 12, 2026: Maharashtra continues to face a major gap between the demand for transplant organs and their availability, with nearly 5,000 patients in Mumbai alone awaiting transplants and only around 10 per cent of those on the waiting list currently receiving organs. Against this backdrop, transplant authorities have raised concern that nearly 90 per cent of families who have…",
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}