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A Transplant Recipient Speaks.... Reena's Heartwarming story
“I was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomypathy at the age of 25. In this condition, the heart enlarges and does not pump blood properly – severe LV dysfunction. For a normal person the heart...
Read MoreCadaver Transplant Figures In Tamil Nadu (October 2008-June 30, 2010)
Deceased Donors from Tamil Nadu 97 Major Organs Heart 21 Lungs 2 Liver 85 ...
Read MoreConvocation of MOHAN Foundation’s first batch of Transplant Coordinators
The convocation of the first batch of Transplant Coordinators was held on Sunday, 11 th April 2010, at MOHAN Foundation’s new office in Kilpauk, Chennai . The event started off with a pray...
Read MoreCounselling a family for Deceased Organ Donation – our first experience
By Suvitha K and Subha M, Government Stanley Hospital, Chennai How does one approach a family that is grappling with the loss of a loved one and is grief stricken? How does one deal with the dif...
Read MoreDeceased Organ Donation in Andhra Pradesh (2002 - June 30, 2010)
Deceased Donors from Tamil Nadu 92 Major Organs Heart 8 Liver 64 Kidneys 170 ...
Read MoreGovernment General Hospital signs landmark ‘MOU’ with MOHAN Foundation
With a view to initiating a successful deceased organ donation programme in Chennai, the Dean of Madras Medical College & Government General Hospital, Prof. J. Mohanasundaram, signed a landmark M...
Read MoreHospitals in Tamil Nadu expanding Transplant Programmes
The number of deceased donor organ donations is going up in Tamil Nadu and hospitals in Chennai are expanding their hospital programmes. A team led by Dr. K.R. Balakrishnan at Fortis Malar did its fi...
Read MoreMan devotes son’s first birthday to increase awareness about Organ Donation
Mahesh (33) experienced the joy of becoming a father for the first time on June 17, 2009. Exactly a year later on his son’s Chaarukesh’s first birthday, the design engineer from Chennai m...
Read MorePresident of Pakistan, Zardari, signs up for Organ Donation
The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, pledged to donate his whole body after his death. He made this announcement after signing a landmark bill to regulate transplant of human organs in Pakist...
Read MoreRegulatory Committee set up for Organ Transplantation in Saudi Arabia
A committee for the development of organ transplantation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was formed by the Health Ministry this year. The new body would develop future plans, procedures, regulations a...
Read MoreSalman Khan, bollywood actor, supports Bone Marrow Donation
Salman Khan, the famous Bollywood actor, has touched many lives through his contributions to charity. His latest "role" as a bone marrow donor will now help save lives - the lives of those suffe...
Read MoreTamil Nadu and Andra Pradesh showing the way forward
Acute shortage of organs is a universal problem – more so in developing Asian countries like India. What makes it worse is that the large majorities of organ failure patients never receive any care and added to this the constantly rising incidence of Diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hepatitis B and C carrier state adds to the growing numbers. The rate of living renal transplantation in India is 3.25 per million population and that for cadaver is 0.08 per million population. However the crude and age adjusted incidence rates of ESRD is estimated to be 151 and 232 per million population respectively in India The chronic kidney disease (CKD) registry shows that 74.5% amongst the CKD patients are not receiving any form of renal replacement therapy. These pathetic figures are for kidney transplants and which is a much more evolved program in our country compared to liver and heart transplants. There is no point even discussing the state of these other organ transplants as there is nothing much to discuss. In all this gloom, the only ray of light has been the recently maturing deceased donation programme in Tamil Nadu (TN) & Andra Pradesh (AP). Together these states have done over 400 deceased donors in the last 10 years resulting in over 1600 organs and tissues. The last 2-3 years have seen almost 50% of these donation take place which means there is a definite momentum in the programme. While TN now has its own state registry of waiting list recipients (www.tnos.org); AP is trying to put something similar in place. Why and how it all happened is well known in transplant circles of the country. The number of organ donations in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh has increased in large measures due to the presence of good trained coordinators in the programme. Since December last year, many of the coordinators working in the programme in TN and AP have undergone the one, three and six month training in areas such as grief counseling and medical aspects of organ donation and transplant at MOHAN Foundation. . This has been followed up with short weekend courses. It is truly amazing to see the value some of these trained staff have added to the programme. These highly subsidized courses have been possible due to the grants MOHAN Foundation has received from funding agencies. Similar pilot projects need to be repeated in many parts of the country, if we want to make a success of the deceased donation programme. More information about the courses can be accessed from http:...
Read MoreTwo heart transplants performed on same day
In a record of sorts, Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai performed heart transplants simultaneously on two patients in March 2010. The transplants were carried out on a 22-year-old man with dilat...
Read MoreWe are one…
Sqn Ldr (Dr). Ravi Wankhede made an altruistic kidney donation to his friend. The president of India, Smt. Pr...
Read MoreWorld’s First Full-Face Transplant
The world's first full-face transplant was carried out at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain in late March 2010. The patient, a 31-year-old man, was given an entirely new face, including ...
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