As an NGO involved in the cadaver (deceased) organ donation programme since 1997, MOHAN Foundation (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) has had the opportunity to interact with the public, the government and the private sector over the past decade. ...
A 15-year-old Italian boy has become the first child patient in the world to be permanently implanted with an artificial heart. The boy underwent a 10-hour operation in September 2010 and was doing well after the surgery. He could not be ...
A study appearing in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ( CJASN ) examined whether elderly patients with kidney failure have better or worse access to transplants now than they did in the past. The study included ...
Can kidneys from hepatitis C positive donors be used for transplantation or not? Researchers at Johns Hopkins University studied data from more than 93,000 deceased kidney donors between 1995 and 2009. They found that while outcomes are slightly ...
For the first time in the world Italian doctors have carried out a robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant. This operation "creates new prospects for the treatment of diabetics," because its "mini-invasive" nature strongly reduces post-operation ...
Teenager gets first permanent artificial heart A 15-year-old Italian boy has become the first child patient in the world to be permanently implanted with an artificial heart. The boy underwent a 10-hour operation in September 2010 and ...
Actor Paresh Rawal and his wife Swaroop Sampat have decided to donate their skin. The couple has signed up with the National Burn Institute’s (NBI) skin bank and have been designated as ambassadors for skin donation awareness. This drive will ...
With the start of the Tamil Nadu Organ Sharing (TNOS) network, the number of deceased organ donors and organ sharing under TNOS has been documented from October 2008. July 4 th 2010 saw a very special and moving moment - it was the day ...
Kishore Kumar and Hymavathi are an example of exemplary courage and generosity. They donated the eyes and heart valves of their four-day-old infant daughter after she passed away. The baby was premature and developed complications two days after ...
The Tamil Nadu government has simplified the process for donating the whole body after one’s demise to a medical college. Whole body donations can be made to any tertiary hospital or teaching hospital, where it will be used solely for the ...
Excerpts from the last letter written by late Capt. Vijayendra Thapar of the Indian Army to his family, before he laid down his life for the Nation. – Contributed by Dr. Ravi Wankhede, Nagpur Dearest Papa, Mama, Birdie, and ...
MOHAN Foundation helped the deceased organ donation programme in Andhra Pradesh achieve a milestone in the first week of November 2010. Venkatesam, a businessman, who was declared brain dead became the 100 th organ donor in the state ...
MOHAN Foundation Organises Organ-o-Cultural 2010 to commemorate Organ Donors In an attempt to raise organ donation awareness within the city, MOHAN Foundation organized ‘Organ-o-Cultural 2010’, a cultural competition for college ...
A national two-day Annual Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop was organized on 20 th and 21 st August 2010 by MOHAN Foundation in Hyderabad with the support of the Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust. The workshop was inaugurated on 20th ...
Niveditha Sankaran, Transplant coordinator from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, received the Best Transplant Coordinator’s award from Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation, during the Transplant Coordinators Annual Workshop held in ...
The topic for the Panel Discussion was “What can we do to improve the deceased donor programme?” Though we in India have a huge pool of brain dead donors, many potential deceased donors are lost and organs and lives are lost. ...
Delegates at the Annual Transplant Coordinators’ Workshop 2010 participated in a free paper session on various topics (public education, hospital contact programme, liaison with government, experiences with recipients and donor families) ...