Recently doctors from Gleneagles Global Health City performed the first successful deceased donor liver transplant (DDLT) at SRM Medical College and Hospital Research Centre in Katankulathur Chennai in a 6-hour long surgery. This is a milestone in transplant procedures in India. Surgeons harvested the liver of a brain-dead person for the surgery. The first DDLT was performed in India in 1995 but it was unsuccessful. The history of DDLT is not very encouraging and there is also a large gap between demand and supply. Most successful liver transplants in India are from living donors. This is why the success of