MOHAN Foundation–IGNOU Community College offers a one year Diploma programme in Transplant Coordination & Grief Counselling. MOHAN Foundation has been working in the field of deceased organ donation since 1997and we have long felt the ...
If you thought Facebook was about finding and chatting with long-lost friends, think again. This is the true story of how a life was saved because of this social-networking site. Ms. April Capone Almon, mayor of East Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., ...
Dallas Wiens, the United States' first face transplant patient has revealed that he will soon be going home and said that the return of his ability to smell and breathe through his nose are the best things that could have happened to him since the ...
Richard Edwards, 55, a chiropractor from Oklahoma, U.S.A. underwent a radical double hand transplant on 25th August 2010. He was severely injured in a fire in 2006. He survived and most of his injuries healed, but his hands were badly burned. He ...
The results of the first head-to-head comparison of the three most common drugs used at the time of a kidney transplant to prevent organ rejection have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 19, 2011). Based at ...
The liver transplant unit in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai completed 100 liver transplants in May 2011 – an achievement indeed. The programme was started in 2008, and so far 102 liver transplantation surgeries have been carried out. Of these, 22 ...
Seventeen-year-old Harshita was declared brain dead on April 29, 2011 at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi. But today, she lives on through the lives of five other people to whom her organs were donated. Her parents Mahender Bharech and ...
The Ellora Vigyan Mancha (EVM), is a voluntary organization, which is doing exemplary work in creating awareness about body and organ donation in Assam. Mr. Isfaqur Rahman, EVM's convener, is the husband of Ellora Roy Choudhary, who was the first ...
Eminent urologist Prof. Toe Lwin from Myanmar visited MOHAN Foundation, Chennai on 16th June 2011 to learn more about the cadaveric (deceased) organ donation programme in India. He visited the Foundation on the invitation of Dr. Sunil Shroff, ...
MOHAN Foundation has plans to take the organ donation movement to other places in India. Coimbatore is the first big step in this direction. In an attempt to raise organ donation awareness within the city, it organized Organ-o-Cultural 2011, a ...
On a recent visit to Australia in March 2011, I visited the New South Wales (NSW) Organ and Tissue Donation Service and the Australian Red Cross Blood service. This was to gain a clearer insight into the deceased organ donation programme in ...
Ramya, a 15 year-old girl, was a young and energetic school-going student. She was loved by all her friends and relatives. Ramya and her two siblings, a brother and a sister, belonged to a poor family from Gudiyatham in the state of Tamil Nadu. ...
Dr. Francis L. Delmonico is a renowned transplant surgeon and a vocal campaignerof the deceased organ donation programme. He wears many hats - he is Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, U.S.A., he ...
MOHAN Foundation's one month Tr a n s p l a n t C o o r d i n a t o r s ' Tr a i n i n g Programme started on 18th April 2011. Participants from all across the country - Indore, Nasik, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Coimbatore and Chennai – ...