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, ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. “ ...
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 ...