Indian Transplant Newsletter.Vol. 15 Issue No.: 47 (Mar 2016–Jun 2016)
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Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Transplantation (ELPAT) – A Unique Organ Transplantation Conference

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ELPAT is a movement that strives to look at new developments in the field of ethical, legal and psychosocial aspects of organ transplantation. It is an offshoot body of the European Society of Organ Transplantation and it meets every two years. I ...

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Donation and Transplantation Global Leadership Symposium held in California, USA

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The Donation and Transplantation Global Leadership Symposium (GLS) in Del Mar, California, USA from 22nd to 26th May 2016 was attended by Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation. It was a unique learning experience that addressed best ...

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The heart of a deceased donor from Pune beats in Delhi

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The heart of a 23-year-old young man from Pune now beats in a 24-year-old man in Delhi. This was because of the generosity of the family from Pune who donated not one, but six organs of the young man who died of a head injury sustained in a road ...

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Odisha government gears itself for deceased organ donation programme

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SCB Medical College, Department of Nephrology and Renal transplantation, Cuttack, Odisha has performed 100 kidney transplantations so far. They started transplants in April 2012, and completed 100 on 16th April 2016. To mark the success of 100 ...

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Amruta Fadnavis pledges organs on Maharashtra Organ Donation Day

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In a move to boost deceased organ donations in the state, Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, expressed her wish to spread awareness on the issue. Mrs. Fadnavis, who was the chief guest at KEM hospital to ...

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Deceased organ donation and transplantation in Kolkata after a four year lull

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Up until 28th June 2016, West Bengal had just one deceased organ donor whose two kidneys were transplanted to patients at SSKM Hospital and Belle Vue Clinic in 2012. But the family of Mrs. Sovona Sarkar, 71, who was declared brain dead on 23rd June ...

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Visit to UK - Going places with NHS Blood and Transplant, UK!

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Dr. Sumana Navin, Course Director, MOHAN Foundation was invited as an observer for the Deceased Donation Course for Intensive Care Medicine (ICM) trainees in Nottingham by Dr. Dale Gardiner, Deputy National Clinical Lead for Organ Donation, NHSBT, ...

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Donor Story from UK - James Donaldson - An Officer and a Gentleman...and a Hero

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“James was an officer and hopefully a gentleman,” said Carol Donaldson with a slight smile. She was talking about her 26-year-old son, James Donaldson, who died in a motorbike accident in 2010. There is no doubt in my mind that James ...

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Training Programme - Under the aegis of NOTTO, MOHAN Foundation conducted the second joint Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme at the NOTTO Office

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Under the aegis of the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO), MOHAN Foundation conducted the second joint Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme at the NOTTO Office, Safadarjung Hospital Campus, New Delhi from March ...

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Training Programme - Under the aegis of NOTTO, MOHAN Foundation in partnership with Fortis Organ Retrieval & Transplant (FORT) conducted a Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme

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Under the aegis of NOTTO, MOHAN Foundation in partnership with Fortis Organ Retrieval & Transplant (FORT) conducted a Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon from April 12-16, ...

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ISOT Midterm Meeting - Midterm meeting of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation (ISOT) on Standardising Transplant Care and Making it Affordable

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A two day conference on Standardising Transplant Care and Making it Affordable was held on 24th & 25th June 2016 at Fortune Park JP Celestial, Bengaluru. The meeting was conducted under the aegis of Indian Society of Organ Transplantation ...

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Donor Story from Puducherry - Mr. Sudhakar - Deceased organ donor from Puducherry

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Mr. Sudhakar, 30 years old, son of Mr. Ganapathy, hailed from Paradapattu, Villupuram, Tamil Nadu. He completed his diploma and was engaged full time as an agriculturist taking care of his fields. He was the eldest in the family and was taking care ...

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Awards - Mrs. Bhavna Jagwani - a champion for the cause of organ donation gets recognition in Rajasthan

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Mrs. Bhavna Jagwani, Convener, MOHAN Foundation – Jaipur Citizen Forum (MFJCF) was honoured with the “RAJMATA GAYATRI DEVI WOMEN’S EXCELLENCE AWARD.” The award was given in the beautiful traditional ambience of City Palace ...

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Chief Minister of Goa keen to implement Deceased Donation and Transplantation Programme in the state

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At the Kidney Update 2016 meeting on 17th April 2016 in Panjim, Goa the Chief Minister Mr. Laxmikant Parsekar of Goa expressed his keen desire to implement Deceased Donation and Transplantation Programme in the state. He quoted the success of Tamil ...

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Awards - MOHAN Foundation receives the Golden Mikes Awards for ‘’Best use of Radio’’

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MOHAN Foundation won the Gold Trophy at the Golden Mikes Radio Advertising Awards for the "Best use of Radio" for its campaign titled "Dil Deke Dekho" with 91.1 Radio City. The campaign was run in Delhi-NCR from February 5, 2015 and leading up to ...

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Awards - Dr. Ravi Wankhede presented Annual Exemplary Humanitarian Award by Rotary Club of Nasik West

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The Rotary Club of Nasik West invited Dr. Ravi Wankhede, Head of MOHAN Foundation, Nagpur Centre and presented him with the Annual Exemplary Humanitarian Award for the year 2015-16 for his work on spreading awareness about organ donation through ...

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Deceased Organ Donation Rate in India

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Year Pmp* 2012 0.16 2013 0.26 2014 0.34 2015 0.5 Per million population Did you know…? In 2013 the ...

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