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Advanced Transplant coordinators workshop – Chennai, January 2014
Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing trustee, MOHAN Foundation and Mrs. Lalitha Raghuraram, Country Director, MOHAN Foundation presenting faculty certificate to Dr. Manjula Balasubramaian, Chief of Clinical Pa...
Read MoreContribution of Tier-II Cities Key Factor in success of Deceased Organ Donation in Tamil Nadu
With an organ donation rate of 1.8 per million populations in 2013, Tamil Nadu continues to be the leader in deceased organ donation in the country. The national organ donation rate in 2013 was 0.26 ...
Read MoreDeceased Organ Donation Statistics-2013
State Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Kerala Maharashtra Delhi Gujarat Karnataka Puducherry Total (National) ...
Read MoreHealthy Baby Born to Brain Dead Mother followed by Organ Donation
A healthy baby boy was born in eastern Hungary after his brain dead mother was kept on a ventilator for about three months to bring him to term, and delivered by cesarean section. “The baby is ...
Read MoreIndian-origin doctor working on new organ preservation solution
Dr. Hemant Thatte, a senior cardiovascular surgeon at Harvard University, who was born in Mumbai and raised in Pune, has worked out a 21-chemical solution called SOMAH that could preserve a donated o...
Read MoreMan survives for 31 years after heart transplant
In the News – International A British man has become the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient after undergoing the life-saving operation 31 years ago (as reported in December...
Read MoreMOHAN Foundation celebrates World Organ Donation Day with budding Florence Nightingales of Tamil Nadu
To commemorate “World Organ Donation Day”, MOHAN Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Nephrology, Madras Medical Mission organized a one day workshop – “Educatin...
Read MoreOrgan donation website launched in Indore
Madhya Pradesh’s first organ donation website www.organdonationindore.org was launched in February 2014 in Indore by state urban development minister, Mr. Kailash Vijayvargiya. This is the webs...
Read MoreOrgan Donation: What Does it Take to Engender a Cultural Shift?
Posted on March 11, 2012 by Dr. Christopher Barry We created bLifeNY.org to engage and educate the public about the importance of organ donation with a particular focus on New York State, which...
Read MorePolio affected woman donates kidney to granddaughter
A wheelchair-bound grandmother from a village in Punjab's Sangrur district donated a kidney to her teenaged granddaughter to save her life. Priyadarshi Ranjan, chief of kidney transplant surgery and ...
Read MoreSimultaneous kidney- pancreas transplant performed in Chennai
A simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplant was performed on a 46-yearold patient in Apollo Hospitals, Chennai in February 2014. The first pancreas transplant was done in 1966 in the US and hundreds o...
Read MoreStudy on Organ trafficking in India
Human trafficking for organ removal continues to rear its ugly head in India despite the government legislating the Transplantation of Human Organs Act in 1994 to curb the organ trade, a study has fo...
Read MoreThousands take organ donation pledge in the Philippines
On 28th February 2014, thousands of people in the Philippines pledged to donate kidneys and other body parts after death as part of a bid to set a Guinness world record for organ donations, the healt...
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