No Problem India has 80,000 cases of kidney failure every year, most needing immediate transplants. In 1995 the Indian government passed a law prohibiting commercial transplants and organ donations from anyone other than relatives, dangerously reducing the number of possible donors. Due to the enforcement of the new law, Dr Reddy and his team had to stop their work. The kidney trade in India is thriving as never before, though nowadays declared illegal and therefore uncontrollable.