Medical Disclaimer

This platform exists because transplantation is badly explained almost everywhere, and because people facing it are usually making decisions under time pressure, in a second language, with money involved. Good information helps with that. It is not the same thing as medical advice, and confusing the two is dangerous in a way that matters here more than on most websites.

What we publish is information only: descriptions of how procedures work, what the criteria generally are, what the pathway involves, what things cost, and what the law permits in a given country. It is written from published clinical guidance, registry data and health authority sources, all of which we cite so you can check us.

What we do not publish is advice about you. We do not know your diagnosis, your test results, your other conditions, your medications or your circumstances, and no page can account for those. Two people with the same organ failure can need opposite things, and the difference is in the detail we cannot see.

The practical test is simple. If a sentence on this site would change what you do, take it to a doctor who has your file and ask them whether it applies to you. That is not a formality. It is the entire reason we write plainly enough for you to be able to ask.

Reading this website does not make us your doctor. Sending an enquiry does not either, and neither does receiving a reply from a coordinator. There is no doctor-patient relationship between you and Organ Transplant Abroad at any point, because we are not a medical practice and the people who answer enquiries are not treating you.

This has consequences that are worth stating rather than leaving you to infer.

Nobody here is monitoring your condition. If something changes, we will not know unless you tell somebody who can act on it, and that person is your doctor rather than us.

Nobody here can prescribe, adjust or stop a medication. This matters especially for transplant recipients: immunosuppressants have narrow therapeutic windows, and changing a dose or switching between formulations is something a transplant team does with blood level monitoring, never something to decide from reading a page.

Nobody here can interpret your results. If you send us a scan report or a blood panel, a coordinator will pass it to a transplant centre for review. They will not tell you what it means, because they are not qualified to and because a wrong answer given confidently is worse than no answer.

When a transplant centre reviews your case and gives an opinion, that opinion is theirs. A relationship may then exist between you and that centre, on their terms and under their country's law. It still does not create one with us.

A disclaimer that only says what content is not tells you nothing about whether to trust it. So here is how it is made.

Every clinical page is written against published sources: clinical guidelines from professional bodies, registry data, and national health authority material. Where a page states a threshold, a criterion or a figure, it comes from one of those and the source is listed at the foot of the page with a link. We do not invent statistics, we do not publish outcome figures we cannot attribute, and we do not use patient testimonials, because a testimonial is a story that cannot be checked and reads as a promise.

Every page carries a review date. Medical information goes stale, and a page that does not say when it was last checked is asking you to assume it is current. Where a figure can no longer be verified, we withdraw it rather than leave it standing — an empty cell is more honest than a stale number.

Clinical content goes through medical review before it is published. A page that has not been through that review is not published as though it has, and we do not claim oversight that has not happened.

And when we get something wrong, we correct it. If you find an error, tell us. We would far rather be corrected by a reader than leave a mistake standing on a page somebody is making a decision from.

What none of this changes: careful sourcing makes information more reliable, not more applicable to you. A well-reviewed page about kidney transplantation is still not an assessment of your kidneys.

Some pages offer a short set of questions that ends in an indication of whether a pathway is likely to be available. It is useful, and it is also the single easiest thing on this platform to misread, so it is worth being exact about what it does.

It applies general rules. It takes what you tell it and matches it against the criteria published for a procedure and the legal position in a country. That is genuinely informative — it can tell you, for example, that a country does not permit non-residents to register for a deceased-donor organ, which is a hard fact that no clinical assessment will overturn.

It is not a decision about you. It has not seen your results, it cannot examine you, and it does not know the twenty things a transplant team would weigh. A result of "likely available" is not an offer, an acceptance or a prediction. A result of "not available" is more reliable, because it usually reflects a legal or structural barrier rather than a clinical judgement — but even then, ask.

This is why the tool asks you to acknowledge that it is not medical advice before it shows you anything, and why it records that acknowledgement along with the exact reasons it gave. If you come back later and ask what you were told, we can show you precisely that, rather than a re-derivation that may have changed since.

Use the answer as a reason to ask a better question, not as a substitute for asking one.

Three kinds of information on this site come with their own caveat, on top of everything above.

Prices are indications, not quotations. Where we publish a cost range, it comes from a source we name with the date it was confirmed, and we withdraw it when it can no longer be verified. It still describes what somebody was charged in a particular case at a particular time, not what you will be charged. Only a written, itemised quotation from a hospital binds anybody, and on our cost pages we tell you exactly which lines to make sure it includes.

Legal positions change, sometimes quickly. What a country permits regarding living donation, non-resident registration or donor relationships is set by its own law and interpreted by its own authorities. We describe those rules as accurately as we can and we date them, but a national authority is the only body that can tell you how they apply to your case. Where we say a route is not permitted, that is us reporting the rule, not us refusing you.

Information about hospitals and clinicians comes from those organisations and from public registers. We check that a centre exists, that it is authorised for the procedure, and that what we publish about it is accurate when we publish it. Where we show an accreditation, we record which body awarded it and when it expires, and we take it down when it lapses. Beyond that, the practice of a hospital is theirs to describe and yours to verify with them directly.