Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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Honouring Organ Donor Families in Chennai

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Honouring Organ Donor Families in Chennai   It has been 10 years since MOHAN Foundation started on its journey and it is the deceased donors of Chennai and their families who have been our inspiration all these years. In October1999, ...

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Efforts to increase organ donation in the European Union

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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The European Union is making efforts to increase organ donation and transplants through raising public awareness about the concept – one of the specific methods to be adopted is issue of organ donor cards. Organ donor cards have a unique role ...

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Organ donation in India - Impressions of a Dutch student

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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I am a Dutch student in Health information. On the 18th of May, 2007 I stepped into a plane full of Indians, leaving for Hyderabad to work in MOHAN Foundation for a period of four months. This internship would constitute the last part of my study. ...

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Kidney Crossover Transplant done in Mumbai

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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Mumbai’s second kidney crossove transplant (kidney swap) was successfully performed on 10th April 2007 at the Hinduja Hospital, Mahim, Mumbai. In this crossover transplant, Mrs. Malini Honrao donated her kidney to Mrs. Hema Shroff who was on ...

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AORTA – a lifeline for the people

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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The Armed Forces Organ Retrieval and Transplantation Authority (AORTA) was  to increase awareness about organ donation after brain death and thereby save lives in the true tradition of the armed forces. In May 2007, the Army Hospital ...

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Hyderabad Family shows the way

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Families who consent to organ donation in the event of brain death of their loved ones show exemplary courage in the face of  tragedy. G. Salaija's family is one such family. Sailaja,20, was brought to Kamineni Hospital, Hyderabad, on May 20, ...

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Unrelated organ donor interview sessions to be videographed in Chennai

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In a bid to further tighten the process of unrelated organ donations, each meeting of the three-member Chennai Authorisation Committee to clear unrelated organ donors is to be videotaped and preserved. Patients and donors appearing for the ...

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MOHAN Foundation, Hyderabad: effort and results By Mieke Van Kollenburg

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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The hospital network is finally starting to run, says Mr. Raghuram Kuppuswamy, CEO of MOHAN Foundation, Hyderabad. Five years back, he set up an organ sharing  programme among 10 hospitals which a   licensed for organ donation. In ...

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MOHAN Foundation Honours Organ Donor Families of Chennai at Raj Bhavan

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“Death is not extinguishing the light, but putting out the lamp because the dawn has  come.” – Rabindranath Tagore  Spreading the light of life are organ donors who prove to us that death can actually bring life, that ...

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Excerpts from the address by Shri Surjit Singh Barnala

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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I feel it a privilege to honour the organ donor families for their kind and noble act of benevolence this evening. The health of its citizens is intrinsic to the development of any country. Health care is one of the key  aspects to building up ...

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They Live On...

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Vol.7 Issue No.25. June - October 2007
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Master Ashwath Kannan Swami Vivekananda once said, “The life is short, the vanities of the world transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.” The Thiruvenkatams lost their son, Ashwath ...

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Ridhi’s Poem

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To lose one’s child is the hardest blow that fate can deal a parent. Disha was only seven years old when she died, but her father, Mr. Mahaveer Khicha, decided to pass on the gift of life to someone else through  his daughter. “ ...

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Islam and organ donation

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Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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Continuing our series on religion and organ donation, we present here a compilation of views on Islam and organ donation. Islam strongly believes in the principle of saving human lives. According to A. Sachedina in his Transplantation Proceeding ...

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