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Brain dead teacher donates organs, helps five people live
Setting an example while undergoing a personal loss, the family members of a deceased school teacher, who was declared brain dead, have donated her organs. On 19 th April 2013, whi...
Read MoreBritish Medical Journal praises Tamil Nadu’s Deceased Organ Donation programme
Tamil Nadu’s Deceased Organ Donation programme came in for praise in the April 2013 edition of the British Medical Journal. A commissioned article by Sandhya Srinivasan - Has Tamil Nadu ...
Read MoreCelebrating Life - A Musical Evening by Indian Ocean
On February 10, 2013 MOHAN Foundation organized an awareness-cum-fundraising event, “Celebrating Life - a musical evening by Indian Ocean” at Zorba, MG Road, New Delhi. The main objectiv...
Read MoreCelebration of Life – 10 years of MOHAN Foundation, Hyderabad
MOHAN Foundation, Hyderabad which began its journey in 2003, has completed 10 years in its continuing endeavour to spread the message of organ donation among a cross-section of our population. &nb...
Read MoreCriminal Law Amendment Bill includes forced removal of organs under exploitation
The Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 2013 passed in Parliament explained what constitutes exploitation. The bill said, "The expression 'exploitation' shall include any act of physical exploitation or any...
Read MoreDiscarded kidneys can be used to generate new kidneys for transplantation
This could very well herald the dawn of a new era in regenerative medicine research. Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in the USA found that human kidneys discarded for transplan...
Read MoreDoctor brought to book for international organ trafficking
A panel of two European Union judges and one Kosovo judge brought to book a urologist and his son for international organ trafficking in Kosovo. The father-son duo took kidneys from poor donors lured...
Read MoreMrithasanjeevani – Initiating the Deceased Organ Donation &Transplantation Programme in Kerala
The Government of Kerala formally initiated the deceased organ donation and transplantation programme in the state in 2102. A lot of thought has gone into putting together an efficient and effective...
Read MoreNational Workshop for Promotion of Deceased Donation
A high level workshop that included international and Indian stakeholders from the field of organ transplantation met in Delhi at the India Habitat Centre to discuss ways to increase the deceased don...
Read MoreThoughts of a Donor Family - Living On...
This is a tribute to Savita Harish - a thirty-one-year-old wife, an only child, a cheerful soft-spoken lady , a hard working professional, a friend in need, a cherished daughter-in-law – my bro...
Read MoreTransplant Coordinators’ Training Programme in Chennai
The one month Transplant Coordinators’ Training programme was conducted by MOHAN Foundation in June 2013. In addition, the six months training programme was also initiated. A total of 20 traine...
Read MoreUAE’s first cadaveric organ transplant performed
UAE’s first cadaveric organ transplant was performed in April 2013 on a 23-year-old Somali woman with kidney failure. The landmark surgery was carried out at the Shaikh Khalifa Medical City (SK...
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