The Indian Ministry of Health after almost two-and-a-half years has finally got around to notifying the new rules on how to implement the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act, 2011. The amended Act after doing the rounds of the Rajya ...
The number of people in Scotland who have signed up to be organ donors has reached a record high of more than two million. A total of 2,025,400 people had put their names forward for the NHS Organ Donor Register as of 31 March 2014 – almost ...
China launched its first official organ donation registration website in March 2014. Citizens can register as organ donors via www.savelife.org.cn, and their information will only be accessible to authorised organizations and coordinators, ...
Gloria Owens, 67, is one of Wales’s longest living transplant recipients. She received her life changing replacement kidney over 31 years ago. Her illness was first diagnosed when she was just 19 and she was put on dialysis when her condition ...
One would not think that organ donation and football had anything in common, but a Brazilian football club has established that Brazilian football club has established that unlikely connection. Sport club Recife, one of the topmost teams in north ...
On 31st May 2014, The M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram, and MOHAN Foundation jointly launched India’s first Organ Protection and Organ Donation Initiative. The two-pronged programme will focus on protecting the kidneys and other organs ...
Justice (Retd) Shrisen Dongaonkar from Nagpur is a man with a mission – he is knowledgeable about the subject of organ donation and he has conducted awareness campaigns to mobilise organ donation after brain death at Law College, Nagpur. He ...
The Organ Donor card is now more than just a PR exercise or a celebrity endorsement or a piece of paper. A remarkable 73-year-old lady, Mrs. J. Sumitha, showed us that it actually works, after she passed away on 13th June 2014 in Chennai. In a ...
It has often been said that eye donation and organ donation should become the norm, rather than the exception. A family in Kolkata has demonstrated just that by donating the eyes of four family members. The eye donations took place in 2003, 2005, ...
A unique State Organ Donation Workshop was held in Jaipur, Rajasthan on 14th May 2014. This was a joint initiative of the Government of Rajasthan and MOHAN Foundation-Jaipur Citizen Forum (MFJCF). The venue was the prestigious SMS Medical ...
A one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was held from 1st to 5th April 2014 at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) Gurgaon. It was jointly organized by MOHAN Foundation (MF), Delhi-NCR and Fortis Organ Retrieval & ...
A one month Transplant Coordinators’ Training programme was held at the Chennai office of MOHAN Foundation in May 2014. In addition to lectures by eminent faculty, films on brain stem death certification, apnoea test and arterial blood gas ...