Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. 10 Issue NO.: 34 (Nov 2011 - Feb 2012)
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Is there a Positive Shift in Attitude to Donate Organs in the Country?

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In the last five years, we have seen a positive shift in the attitude of people in Chennai and Hyderabad towards organ donation. Just like eye donation, families are regularly coming forward of their own accord and making a wish to donate when they ...

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UKs youngest corneal transplant patient

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Eva Joyce was born blind because of a rare congenital condition called Peters anomaly. When she was just 17 days old, she had her right cloudy cornea removed and replaced with a healthy donor cornea in a 3-hour operation at Birmingham Children's ...

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New machine offers better preservation of livers during transport

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Scientists have created a machine which can keep donor livers functioning outside the body. The breakthrough – a British first – could save the lives of hundreds of people needing liver transplants every year. Livers taken from organ ...

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A step forward for the world's first double leg transplant patient

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In December 2011, the world's first double leg transplant patient took his first steps in a swimming pool at a hospital in Valencia, Spain. The patient, a man in his twenties whose identity was not revealed due to privacy issues, had the operation ...

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Nine-year-old girl has multiple organ transplant

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A nine-year-old girl, Alannah Shevenell, from Maine, USA, had a groundbreaking multiple organ transplant at Children's Hospital Boston, on 28th  October 2011. In a 14-hour surgery, transplant surgeons replaced five of her abdominal organs ...

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MOHAN Foundation's journey to USA

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MOHAN Foundation set up a booth in the exhibition at the American Society of Nephrology's annual conference held between 8th and 12th November, 2011 at the Philadelphia Convention Centre, Philadelphia. The booth at this internationally acclaimed ...

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Star cricketer Gautam Gambhir pledges to donate his organs

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Organ donation in India received a major boost after cricketer Gautam Gambhir announced that he would be donating his organs after his death. Gambhir pledged his organs after launching the “Gift a Life” initiative, a website that ...

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Marathon transplant saves three lives

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  Tejasree, Ansa and Anish were three young children suffering from congenital liver disease and required a transplant to survive but none of them had a matching donor. In a rare medical accomplishment, doctors at Gurgaon's Medanta Medicity ...

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Launch of Kannada donor card

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MOHAN Foundation, Bangalore, in association with BNES College organized an Organ Donation solidarity meet on 28 th November 2011 on the occasion of Organ Donation Day. The programme was inaugurated by Honourable Deputy Mayor Sri Harish. The other ...

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Unique Sand Sculpture Highlights Organ Donation Rally in Chennai

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In an attempt to raise Organ Donation Awareness within Chennai city, MOHAN Foundation organized an 'Organ Donation Rally' at the Marina Beach, Chennai, South India from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on 22nd January 2012. A first-of-its-kind sand sculpture on ...

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My first experience with counselling

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I am writing this note to share with you a very unique and poignant experience that I had this evening. My emotions are very charged and I felt I needed to put my feelings down in words to get some clarity. I am in Chennai for this week to ...

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Executive Director visits National Transplant Resource Centre, Malaysia

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Ms. Pallavi Kumar, Executive Director, MOHAN Foundation - Delhi-NCR visited the National Transplant Resource Centre (NTRC) Ministry of Health, Malaysia on February 9 th   2012. She met with Dr. Lela Yasmin Mansor [Chief National Transplant ...

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One week Transplant Coordinators' Training Programme in Visakhapatnam

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As part of the one week transplant coordinators' training programme, three days of didactic and role play sessions were held in December 2011, at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Visakhapatnam. Critical care nurses, Physician Assistants, social workers ...

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One week Transplant Coordinators' Training Programme in Ahmedabad

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A training programme for transplant coordinators was organized in Ahmedabad from 20 th  to 24 th  February 2012 in collaboration with Shatayu, an NGO which works towards deceased organ donation. 30 participants including doctors, ...

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Organ Donation rally in Coimbatore

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PSG hospitals and MOHAN Foundation celebrated Organ Donation day on 27 th November 2011 in Coimbatore. The celebrations were marked by a rally to spread the message of Organ Donation and Transplantation. The Chief Guest of the event was Mr. Amresh ...

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Share Life, Save Life - Organ Donation Quiz -by Dr. Navin Jayakumar - ophthalmologist and quiz master

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This quiz first appeared in the school edition of the New Indian Express. We would like to convey our thanks to them for permitting us to reproduce the quiz here.   Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa was placed ...

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