Indian Transplant Newsletter Vol. 13 Issue No.: 41 (March 2014-June 2014)

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A glorious story in Wales

Gloria Owens, 67, is one of Wales’s longest living transplant recipients. She received her life changing replacement kidney over 31 years ago. Her illness was first diagnosed when she was just ...

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A Record number of Scots sign up to be organ donors

The number of people in Scotland who have signed up to be organ donors has reached a record high of more than two million. A total of 2,025,400 people had put their names forward for the NHS Organ Do...

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An Illustrious judge in Nagpur pledges to donate his organs

Justice (Retd) Shrisen Dongaonkar from Nagpur is a man with a mission – he is knowledgeable about the subject of organ donation and he has conducted awareness campaigns to mobilise organ donati...

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Eye Donation – A Family Tradition

It has often been said that eye donation and organ donation should become the norm, rather than the exception. A family in Kolkata has demonstrated just that by donating the eyes of four family membe...

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Football fans support organ donation

One would not think that organ donation and football had anything in common, but a Brazilian football club has established that Brazilian football club has established that unlikely connection. Sport...

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Launch of India’s First Organ Protection and Organ Donation Initiative

On 31st May 2014, The M.V. Hospital for Diabetes, Royapuram, and MOHAN Foundation jointly launched India’s first Organ Protection and Organ Donation Initiative. The two-pronged programme will f...

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New notified Rules of Transplant Act of 2014 may help boost deceased donation in India and ease organ shortage

The Indian Ministry of Health after almost two-and-a-half years has finally got around to notifying the new rules on how to implement the Transplantation of Human Organs (Amendment) Act, 2011. The am...

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One Month Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme at Chennai

A one month Transplant Coordinators’ Training programme was held at the Chennai office of MOHAN Foundation in May 2014. In addition to lectures by eminent faculty, films on brain stem death ...

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One Week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme at Gurgaon

A one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was held from 1st to 5th April 2014 at Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) Gurgaon. It was jointly organized by MOHAN Foundation (MF...

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Organ Donation Website launched in China

China launched its first official organ donation registration website in March 2014. Citizens can register as organ donors via www.savelife.org.cn, and their information will only be accessible to au...

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Organ Donation Workshop

A unique State Organ Donation Workshop was held in Jaipur, Rajasthan on 14th May 2014. This was a joint initiative of the Government of Rajasthan and MOHAN Foundation-Jaipur Citizen Forum (MFJCF). Th...

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Organ Donor Cards – Transforming a Pledge to Reality

The Organ Donor card is now more than just a PR exercise or a celebrity endorsement or a piece of paper. A remarkable 73-year-old lady, Mrs. J. Sumitha, showed us that it actually works, after she pa...

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