With an organ donation rate of 1.8 per million populations in 2013, Tamil Nadu continues to be the leader in deceased organ donation in the country. The national organ donation rate in 2013 was 0.26 per million populations. In 2013, there were 131 ...
In the News – International A British man has become the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient after undergoing the life-saving operation 31 years ago (as reported in December 2013). John McCafferty, 71, surpassed the ...
Dr. Hemant Thatte, a senior cardiovascular surgeon at Harvard University, who was born in Mumbai and raised in Pune, has worked out a 21-chemical solution called SOMAH that could preserve a donated organ for up to a week before a transplant. ...
A healthy baby boy was born in eastern Hungary after his brain dead mother was kept on a ventilator for about three months to bring him to term, and delivered by cesarean section. “The baby is already growing up at home, with his family. He ...
On 28th February 2014, thousands of people in the Philippines pledged to donate kidneys and other body parts after death as part of a bid to set a Guinness world record for organ donations, the health ministry said. “If they meet with an ...
Madhya Pradesh’s first organ donation website www.organdonationindore.org was launched in February 2014 in Indore by state urban development minister, Mr. Kailash Vijayvargiya. This is the website of the Indore Society for Organ Donation. Mr. ...
A simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant was performed on a 46-yearold patient in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai in February 2014. The first pancreas transplant was done in 1966 in the US and hundreds of transplants have been done since then. ...
Human trafficking for organ removal continues to rear its ugly head in India despite the government legislating the Transplantation of Human Organs Act in 1994 to curb the organ trade, a study has found. Patients still purchase kidneys from ...
A wheelchair-bound grandmother from a village in Punjab's Sangrur district donated a kidney to her teenaged granddaughter to save her life. Priyadarshi Ranjan, chief of kidney transplant surgery and advanced urological laparoscopy, said that the ...
To commemorate “World Organ Donation Day”, MOHAN Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission organized a one day workshop – “Educating Nurses on Organ Donation” for nursing ...
Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dr. Christopher Barry We created bLifeNY.org to engage and educate the public about the importance of organ donation with a particular focus on New York State, which ranks 48th in the nation in terms of organ donor ...
Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing trustee, MOHAN Foundation and Mrs. Lalitha Raghuraram, Country Director, MOHAN Foundation presenting faculty certificate to Dr. Manjula Balasubramaian, Chief of Clinical Pathology, Albert Einstein Medical Centre, ...
State Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Kerala Maharashtra Delhi Gujarat Karnataka Puducherry Total (National) Donor 131 40 ...