Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. 9 Issue NO.: 28 (Oct 2009 - Feb 2010)
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Transplant Coordinators Training Course - An Important Milestone in India

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The recent announcement by MOHAN Foundation to undertake ‘Transplant Coordinators Training Course’ is likely to change the course of deceased donation programme in the country. So far, there has been no structured training available for ...

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In the News - International

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Talk ing Figures - International Donor Rates – 2007 Timing of Request for Organ Donation Crucial For Consent Many more people would agree to donate the organs of a dead relative for t ransplant i f they were approached in the right ...

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Kidney Federation Initiative by Catholic Priest

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Father Davis Chiramel of the Thrissur Archdiocese in Kerala is unique in more ways than one. He has only one kidney and that is because he donated a kidney on 30th September 2008 to 48-year-old Gopinathan Chakkamadathil – an electrician ...

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Longest Surviving Renal Transplant Recipient in India

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Mr. Anand Prakash, a 63-year-old male, resident of Bokaro, is the recipient of a live-related allograft. The kidney was donated by his father. The transplant wa s performed at the PGIMER, Ch andigarh by a team led by Dr. R V S Yadav and Dr. K S ...

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“Rally for Life” – A Bikethon for Organ Donation in Tamil Nadu

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"Rally for Life" - the motorbike rally, organi sed by MOHAN Foundati on, to promote organ donation awareness was flagged off on 09.09.09 at 09:09:09 a.m. by Thiru T. Rajendran IPS, Commissioner of Police, from Loyola College, Chennai. The day was ...

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MOHAN Foundation’s Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme

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MOHAN Foundation has been supporting the cause of deceased organ donation since 1997. Over the years the foundation has been involved in more than 200 successful organ donations and it has found that trained transplant coordinators are crucial to ...

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Tamil Nadu Health Department Government Orders on Organ Donation and Transplantation – Summary

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Taking cognizance of the fact that there are a number of brain deaths in the state of Tamil Nadu, which either go unrecognized or undeclared, resulting in lost opportunities for organ donation, the Govt. Of Tamil Nadu has passed seven Government ...

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Organ Donation and Tamil Nadu

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The current organ donation rate in India has edged up from 0.08 per million to 0.14 per million population. This is essentially due to the three states Tamil Nadu , Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. leading the programme. These states are responsible for ...

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Recommendations for Transplantation of Human Organs Act (Amendments) Bill, 2009

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To Standing Committee of Rajya Sabha The Govt. of India has asked for suggestions for amendment of Transplantation of Human Organs (THO) Act. The altered bill is waiting to be cleared by the Rajya Sabha and it is hoped that the new bill should ...

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Tamil Nadu Cadaver Transplant Figures (Oct. 2008- Sep 2009)

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Hospital Kidney Liver Heart Total GH 14 0 1 15 Stanley Hospital 11 3 0 14 Apollo ...

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