MOHAN Foundation (MF) signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK on 30th January 2015 in Chennai. The objective is to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing between the two organizations with ...
Between 6,000 and 9,000 transplants are done in China each year, a fraction of the roughly 300,000 needed, according to government data. A nationwide organ donation system was launched by China’s government in February 2013, before which ...
In a world first, surgeons at St Vincent Hospital, Sydney, Australia successfully carried out transplant of hearts that were donated after circulatory death in 2014. This transplant comes as the result of combined research between the victors Chang ...
The Canadian Institute for Health Information released a study which says that Canada could reduce its constant shortage of organs for transplant by harvesting more organs form older donors. For example, fewer than 10 per cent of organ donors in ...
Bartolomei Pesta from the Czech Republic underwent five organ transplants in a rare and pioneering lifesaving operation in December 2014. He was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver five years ago, and the condition caused damage to several of his ...
February 2015 saw two incredible families in Rajasthan taking the decision to donate the organs of their deceased children to help others live. The first deceased organ donor in the state was a 7-yearold boy Mohit Kumar who became brain dead ...
On 4th January 2015 the Delhi and Gurgaon police came together to create a 32 km ‘green corridor’ from Fortis Memorial Research Centre (FMRI), in Gurgaon to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Okhla in south Delhi. This enabled a convoy of ...
India’s first hand transplant was carried out successfully at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on 13th January 2015. More than 100 successful hand transplants have been done for several years (the first hand transplant was ...
Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation was presented the prestigious K. Venkatanarayana TANKER Foundation Awareness Award by Dr. J. Radhakrishnan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu at TANKER ...
Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director of MOHAN Foundation was elected as an “Ashoka Fellow” with formal induction on February 27, 2015 in Delhi. Ashoka is one of the largest networks of social entrepreneurs worldwide that recognizes ...
She is a doctor who actually wanted to be an engineer! Gomathy Narasimhan, 41, India’s first woman multi-organ transplant surgeon says that in a way she is an engineer of sorts – putting things together and fixing things - in this case ...
MOHAN Foundation signed a landmark MoU with NHS Blood and Transplant, UK at the Advanced Workshop (2nd consultative meeting) for senior transplant coordinators on 30 th January 2015 in Chennai. The MoU was reaffirmed at the House of Lords in ...
The 17th one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was held from 8th to 12th December 2014 at KEM Hospital (CVTS Building), Mumbai. It was organised by MOHAN Foundation in collaboration with ZTCC (Zonal Transplant Coordination ...
The 18th one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was held at the Department of Nephrology, Urology and Renal Transplant Unit, SCB Medical College & Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha from 16th to 20th February 2015. There were 18 ...
Mrs. Malathi Venkatesan For the last 3-4 decades we have been flooded with so much information on kidney disease – the cause for kidney disease, treatment, statistics of how many are affected and how many people have access to ...
Deceased Organ Donation Statistics – 2014 State No. of Donors *ODR (pmp) Kidney Liver Heart Lung Pancreas Intestine Total ...