Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
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AORTA – a lifeline for the people

Indian Transplant Newsletter.
Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007)
Print ISSN 0972 - 1568
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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 (R&R), New Delhi, retrieved the organs from an accident victim, Ramesh Chand, 60, whose two sons serve in the armed forces. Three persons received lifesaving transplants as a result (two serving soldiers and the wife of another serving soldier). In August 2007, Lance Naik G.S. Bisht’s wife, Leela Devi, died of a brain tumour. She was only 26, but her death did not go in vain, thanks to the generosity of Lance Naik Bisht who consented to donate her organs. The liver  was transplanted into a serving soldier with terminal cirrhosis and one kidney into the 12-year-old daughter of a soldier suffering  from end-stage renal disease. The other kidney was handed over to AIIMS, where it   was transplanted into a 45-year-old person with chronic kidney failure. According to AORTA Director Col. A.K. Seth, hundreds of serving personnel and thei  families have pledged to donate their organs.


To cite : Shroff S, Navin S. AORTA – a lifeline for the people. Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. VII Issue NO.: 25 (Jun-Oct 2007).
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https://www.itnnews.co.in/indian-transplant-newsletter/issue25/AORTA-a-lifeline-for-the-people-667.htm

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