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‘Green corridors’ in Delhi and Gurgaon enable lifesaving transplants
On 4th January 2015 the Delhi and Gurgaon police came together to create a 32 km ‘green corridor’ from Fortis Memorial Research Centre (FMRI), in Gurgaon to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute...
Read MoreConfucianism and Organ Donation in China
Between 6,000 and 9,000 transplants are done in China each year, a fraction of the roughly 300,000 needed, according to government data. A nationwide organ donation system was launched by China&rsquo...
Read MoreDeceased Donation Statistics
Deceased Organ Donation Statistics – 2014 State No. of Donors *ODR (pmp) Kidney Liver Heart Lung ...
Read MoreDr. Gomathy Narasimhan – India’s first woman multi-organ transplant surgeon
She is a doctor who actually wanted to be an engineer! Gomathy Narasimhan, 41, India’s first woman multi-organ transplant surgeon says that in a way she is an engineer of sorts – putting ...
Read MoreDr. Sunil Shroff presented award for organ donation awareness
Dr. Sunil Shroff, Managing Trustee, MOHAN Foundation was presented the prestigious K. Venkatanarayana TANKER Foundation Awareness Award by Dr. J. Radhakrishnan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Health and F...
Read MoreFirst Successful Hand Transplant in India
India’s first hand transplant was carried out successfully at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on 13th January 2015. More than 100 successful hand transplants have been done for...
Read MoreKidney Disease – Coming Full Circle: A Patient’s View
Mrs. Malathi Venkatesan For the last 3-4 decades we have been flooded with so much information on kidney disease – the cause for kidney disease, treatment, statistics of how many are aff...
Read MoreMan undergoes five organ transplant at a go
Bartolomei Pesta from the Czech Republic underwent five organ transplants in a rare and pioneering lifesaving operation in December 2014. He was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver five years ago, ...
Read MoreMOHAN Foundation signs landmark MoU with NHS Blood and Transplant, UK to increase organ donation rate in India & UK
MOHAN Foundation (MF) signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK on 30th January 2015 in Chennai. The objective is to promote collaboration and kno...
Read MoreMrs. Lalitha Raghuram Inducted as “Ashoka Fellow”
Mrs. Lalitha Raghuram, Country Director of MOHAN Foundation was elected as an “Ashoka Fellow” with formal induction on February 27, 2015 in Delhi. Ashoka is one of the largest networks of...
Read MoreNHSBT MoU
MOHAN Foundation signed a landmark MoU with NHS Blood and Transplant, UK at the Advanced Workshop (2nd consultative meeting) for senior transplant coordinators on 30 th January 2015 in Chennai. The ...
Read MoreOne Week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme held in Cuttack, Odisha
The 18th one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was held at the Department of Nephrology, Urology and Renal Transplant Unit, SCB Medical College & Hospital, Cuttack, Odisha fr...
Read MoreOne Week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme held in Mumbai
The 17th one week Transplant Coordinators’ Training Programme was held from 8th to 12th December 2014 at KEM Hospital (CVTS Building), Mumbai. It was organised by MOHAN Foundation in collaborat...
Read MoreRajasthan on the deceased organ donation map
February 2015 saw two incredible families in Rajasthan taking the decision to donate the organs of their deceased children to help others live. The first deceased organ donor in the state was a 7-yea...
Read MoreShortage of Organs for transplant in Canada can be overcome
The Canadian Institute for Health Information released a study which says that Canada could reduce its constant shortage of organs for transplant by harvesting more organs form older donors. For exam...
Read MoreSuccessful Transplants of Hearts Donated after Circulatory Death in Australia
In a world first, surgeons at St Vincent Hospital, Sydney, Australia successfully carried out transplant of hearts that were donated after circulatory death in 2014. This transplant comes as the resu...
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