Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. 10 Issue NO.: 31 (Oct 2010 - Feb 2011)

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Beating the Odds - The Government General Hospital experience

It is now February 2011 and it has been exactly a year since MOHAN Foundation signed an MoU with the Government General Hospital Chennai to place its grief counselors there. The presence of our trained grief counselors has made a tremendous ...

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Organ Donor Debate in Israel

Israeli football icon, Avi Cohen's death following a motorcycle accident in December 2010 has sparked an intense debate about organ donation in the Jewish state. The 54 year old Cohen was declared brain dead following the accident. When doctors ...

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Britain's chief rabbi's stand on organ donation raises concerns

Close on the heels of the organ donation debate stirred in Israel by Avi Cohen's demise, comes another equally intense debate in Britain. Lord Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of Orthodox Jews in London, has said that organ donor cards, in their ...

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Voice Box Transplant

Brenda Charett Jensen, 52, underwent a rare voice box transplant in October 2010 - only the second surgery of its kind performed in the U.S.A. She damaged her vocal cords more than a decade ago after she repeatedly pulled out her breathing tube ...

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Famous Carnatic vocalist Sudha Ragunathan pledges to donate organs

Famous Carnatic vocalist Padma Shri Sudha Ragunathan, the founder trustee of Samudhaaya Foundation, and her family took a pledge to donate their organs on the occasion of her Guru M L  asanthakumari's 20 death anniversary  i.e. on 31th ...

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Skin Bank to be established in Chennai

A skin and tissue bank will be established at the King Institute in Guindy, Chennai, at a cost of Rs.6 crore to treat burn injury victims. This announcement was made by Mr. V.K. Subburaj, Principal Secretary, Health & Family Welfare, ...

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Successful liver transplants at Government Stanley Hospital, Chennai

The government Stanley Hospital in Chennai celebrated the second anniversary of the hospital's first successful liver transplantation in January 2011. The director of the Institute of Surgical Gastroenterology in Stanley Hospital, Dr. R. Surendran ...

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TieCon “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” Award

Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation was awarded the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2010” Award by TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) for his contribution to the cause of entrepreneurism by starting MOHAN Foundation and ...

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Statistics of Deceased Organ Donation & Transplantation In India

  MAHARASTRA Source: Zonal Transplantation Coordinator Centre (ZTCC) 1997-January 2011   ...

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Take 2, 2nd Chance, Life

6th World Organ Donation Day falls on 27th November 2010. MOHAN Foundation organized a special curtainraiser event to mark this special day- an intercollegiate Short film & Ad spot competition, “Take 2, Give a 2nd Chance at Life!”, ...

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Transplant Coordinators’ One Week Training Program - KEM Hospital, Mumbai

Zonal Transplant Coordination Centre (ZTCC), Mumbai, in collaboration with MOHAN Foundation organized a one week Transplant Coordinators' Training Programme at KEM Hospital, Mumbai, in December 2010. The training programme is supported by the ...

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