Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. I Issue NO.: 2 (February 1999)
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Need for amending the Transplantation of Human Organs Act of 1994

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There is an overwhelming need to make certain amendments in the THO Act to give momentum to the flagging cadaver transplant scene in India. In 1996 the Madras Bar Association had similar ideas. It formed a committee headed by the ...

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Unique Diabetes Cure

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A Michigan woman has become the first person to undergo an experimental cell transplant that doctors hope  will lead  to a cure  for diabetes. The woman, Jackie Warren Demijohn, had been suffering since she was seven from Type I ...

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Paving the way for an Organ Transplant Law in India

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At a seminar in Teheran, Iran’s former President, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, urged the Iranian Parliament to pass a legislation to allow  organ transplants  from brain dead  individuals.  He said that Islam does not ...

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Kidneys for sale in Thailand

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The trade in organs is spreading in South East Asia and the new entrant is Thailand. Economic constraints have prompted  many Thais to offer their kidneys for sale. Also, visitors who find themselves desperate for cash ...

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China Again

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Fuzhou General Hospital in Fujian  province, China, has signed a contract with  a local  court  to harvest the kidneys  of executed prisoners. This came to light through an agent based in Taiwan who was involved in ...

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A Successful Liver Transplant in Chennai

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The liver transplant activity livened up again when the successful liver transplant patient Chandra Sekar Pillay, 50, went home  from Apollo Hospital Chennai, after a post operative  stay of a fortnight.  Five liver transplants have ...

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Snippets

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Three bodies that have been sustained by  one heart.   In the world’s first  serial transplant the organ was taken from the body of one Italian woman to another, who also died, then into a man. There are 69 organ ...

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The Debate on Allocation

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THE DEBATE  ON ALLOCATION   The two problems that eternally confront cadaver transplantation surgery are availability of organs and how those organs should be allocated-should it be to the person who has waited the longest, the ...

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The Promotion and Organisation of Organ and Tissue Donation in the Southern Thames Region, United Kingdom

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Jenny Warner Regional Transplant Coordinator I am fortunate to be one of five transplant co-ordinators (procurement), working in the largest region in the country, South Thames, densely populated with 7 million people, covering some 48 ...

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A Gift that lives on - A Donor's Story

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There was no premonition, no warning of death lurking around the corner. There never is. It was a happy vanload of ladies and children that started out that morning on their trip to Pondicherry. A bus and a drunken driver later, all that remained ...

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Cadver Transplant Activity in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore (1995-1998)

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Delhi         AIIMS                       36 Kidneys 10 Hearts 4 Pancreas Army Hospital             1 Kidney     ...

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Transplant Facts

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Transplant Facts 1. Longest surviving kidney transplant patient -34 years 2. Longest surviving liver transplant patient- 27 years 3. Longest surviving heart transplant patient -22 years 4. Longest surviving lung transplant patient ...

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