MOHAN Foundation's one year Post Graduate Diploma course for transplant coordinators commenced in August this year and the first batch of 22 students from nursing, medical and social work background have now finished their first semester ...
Derya Sert, who was born without a uterus, became the first woman in the world to receive a womb from a deceased donor. The operation was performed successfully on August 9, 2011 at Akdeniz University Hospital in southern Turkey. Previously in ...
Spanish surgeons have performed the world's first double-leg transplant on a man whose legs were amputated above the knee after an accident. Surgeons operated through the night on the man, who had faced life in a wheelchair because ...
The world's first transplant of a synthetic windpipe has been successfully carried out by a team of surgeons. On June 9, 2011 a 36-year-old man suffering from late stage tracheal cancer, received a new trachea, or windpipe, made from a synthetic ...
A 14-year-old Canadian teenager needing a heart pump can now go to her school along with her friends thanks to the next generation heart pumps that can be carried around in a purse. Kolby Zanier was fitted with a Heart Ware pump on 28 August ...
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, USA, performed its first successful bloodless heart transplant on a 6-year-old boy, Andrew Craver, in December 2010. Mark Galantowicz, MD, FACS, chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Nationwide Children's, said ...
Dr. Harun Ur Rashid, President, Kidney Foundation Bangladesh visited MOHAN Foundation, Chennai on 1st October 2011. Dr. Rashid has been spearheading a dramatic change in the lives of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Bangladesh. He was ...
India's first ever kidney transplant surgery between patients of incompatible blood groups was conducted at a hospital in th Hyderabad on 19 July 2011. Doctors at the Kamineni Super Specialty Hospital conducted the surgery on a patient with blood ...
On 20th July, 2011, Friendship Forum of India, New Delhi, honoured Mr. K. Raghuram , Convenor – MOHAN Foundation, Andhra Pradesh, with the "Bharat Excellence Award" for outstanding service to society in the field of organ donation. Mrs. ...
M.S. Sandeep, 16, became the youngest person to undergo a heart transplant in Karnataka after doctors were able to use the heart from a 25-year old man who became brain dead following an accident in May 2011. Sandeep had been diagnosed with dilated ...
Many celebrities in India have lent their voice to the cause of 'eye donation' but none have translated their commitment into action, if and when an opportunity arose in their lives, when they lost a loved one in their family or friend. Mr. ...
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The Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India in collaboration with MOHAN Foundation organized a series of events on organ donation awareness, under the WHO biennium 2010-11. The first one ...
The third event also called 'Samsaara – The Circle of Life' was held in Chennai at Rajiv Gandhi Govt. General Hospital on 3 rd September 2011 in collaboration with Cadaver Transplant Programme, Tamil Nadu and Madras Medical College, Chennai. ...
The second event 'Samsaara – The Circle of Life' was held in Puducherry at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) on 29th August 2011. Dr. DilipKumar Baliga DMS(Director of Medical ...
On a recent trip to Hong Kong, Ms. Pallavi Kumar, Executive Director (Delhi-NCR) visited the Central Health Education Unit to learn more about the country's deceased organ donation program. She met Dr. KUNG Kin Hang (Senior Medical and Health ...
MOHAN Foundation and NATCO (National Association of Transplant Coordinators) organized its 4th Annual Transplant Coordinators Workshop on October 8th & 9th, 2011 at Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The workshop is the only ...
MOHAN Foundation in partnership with Zonal Coordination Committee in Karnataka for Transplantation (ZCCK) and Gift your Organ Foundation conducted a successful five-day residential training programme for Transplant Coordinators from 22nd to ...