Indian Transplant Newsletter.Vol. 14 Issue No.: 43 (Nov 2014–Feb 2015)

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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...

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Confucianism 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...

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Deceased Donation Statistics

Deceased Organ Donation Statistics – 2014 State No. of Donors *ODR (pmp) Kidney Liver Heart Lung ...

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Dr. 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 ...

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Dr. 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...

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First 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...

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Kidney 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...

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Man 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, ...

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MOHAN 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...

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Mrs. 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...

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NHSBT 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 ...

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One 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...

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One 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...

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Rajasthan 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...

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Shortage 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...

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Successful 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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