Deceased donation transplamtation in india is now gradually moving forward. In the last two years we have seen the doubling of the decesased donation rate from 196 donors in 2012 or 0.16per million population to 411 in 2014 or 0.34 pmp.The figures ...
The parents of Britain’s youngest organ donor, Teddy Houlston, have spoken about how they made the difficult decision to donate their son’s kidneys when he died after living for just 100 minutes. Doctors at the University Hospital of ...
Mr. James Boysen, 55, a software developer from Austin, Texas, underwent the world’s first scalp and skull transplant on May 22, 2015 at Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas, USA. Surgical teams from Houston Methodist Hospital and The University ...
A 22-year-old South African man who had the world’s first successful penis transplant in December 2014 is all set to become a father. He has impregnated his girlfriend, doctors said in June this year. He is one among 250 South Africans who ...
The first human head transplant could take place in just two years, according to Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, from the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group. He claims the procedure to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body will ...
In a first for the coastal city of Mangaluru in Karnataka, city traffic police on 13th April 2015 created a “Green Corridor” to facilitate the transport of a brain dead donor’s heart valves, kidneys and liver from AJ hospital to ...
On the occasion of Maharashtra Organ Donation Day on 27th March 2015, the municipal commissioner of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mr. Sitaram Kunte pledged to donate his organs. Other guests present at the event including Dr. Suhasini ...
It took 36 hours for three medical teams at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai to retrieve 23 organs from five brain-dead donors and transplant them in 10 patients in the hospital, setting a record of sorts. Starting at 8.30 p.m. on Monday May 4, ...
A new initiative, Campaign on Organ Donation (CORD), was launched by Saroj Super Speciality Hospital in collaboration with MOHAN Foundation and ORGAN India in Delhi in June 2015. The initiative aims to take the concept of organ donation to ...
In a unique initiative, MOHAN Foundation – Jaipur Citizen Forum’s (MFJCF) team Navjeevan organised a special programme ‘Navjeevan Ka Ankur’ to felicitate the state’s deceased organ donors and their families at SMS ...
Zoya Rana, a 21-year-old student pursuing a degree in Fine Arts in Mumbai had come to Nagpur, her hometown, for a short holiday. Little did she or her family know that this would be her last and final visit. On 21st March 2015 around 8.30 a.m. she ...
Bharat Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India presented the Shanmukhananda Ruby Jubilee Health Care Award to Mrs. Malathi Venkatesan, Trustee MOHAN Foundation and TANKER Foundation, on 23rd March 2015 in Mumbai. The occasion was the ...
Dr. Vijayanand Palaniswamy, 38, could well be a Superhero himself – much like the Marvel comics Superheroes that he so admires and watches with his 11-year-old son. So move over Iron Man, Spiderman, X-Men…here comes Miracle ...
MOHAN Foundation in partnership with FORT (Fortis Organ Retrieval & Transplant) successfully conducted a one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme from April 7-11, 2015 at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI), Gurgaon. ...
Many ‘firsts’ were achieved at the 29th Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme held in Chennai in May 2015. A heart transplant recipient underwent training. There was international representation – participants ...