Two years after Pune youngster Shreya Siddanagowda became the country’s first patient to undergo a bilateral upper hand transplant, she will attempt the Dream Run at Sunday’s Mumbai Marathon to help get new hands for Monica More—the Kurla resident who as a 16-year-old lost both her arms in a 2014 railway accident.
Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance has created a new Guinness World Records title for collecting the highest number of pledges for organ donation in a single day, following an impactful awareness drive throughout November.
Aligned with its mission to protect the dreams and aspirations of people, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance has kicked off a month-long campaign called #NoMoreWaiting. This aims to raise awareness and urge more people to step up in support of organ donation.
While 80% of people in major Indian cities are aware of organ donation, only three per cent of them have registered themselves as organ donors, a recent study has found. The study, Life After Life, was undertaken by Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance and the Multi-Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation.
BGS Gleneagles Global Hospital recently completed another record-breaking achievement of concluding 500 kidney transplants. This feat has been achieved in just nine years. Currently, they perform seven to eight kidney transplants a month and are one of the largest kidney transplant centres in the state.
Highlighting the need for creating more awareness on organ donation which still has social stigma attached, experts have said that the transplant coordinators play a vital role to motivate the family members and relatives of brain-dead persons so that the vital organs can be harvested.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, is exploring the possibility of making use of drones to transport corneas to hospitals for transplantation surgery.
The family of a 49-year-old former serviceman, who was in the Army for 17 years, has agreed to donate his eyes, skin and bones. Doctors of Sassoon Hospital were able to harvest the bones and send them to the bone bank of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai.
The city registered its first bone donation on August 25 when the family members of a 49-year-old deceased ex-serviceman donated his bones, along with corneas, at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital. A team of orthopaedic surgeons retrieved nine pieces of bones, including seven rib bones and two ileum bones, from his pelvic region.
The first bone donation in Pune took place at the state run Sassoon General Hospital on August 25 when 49-year-old ex-serviceman donated his bones and corneas to the hospital. Aarti Gokhale, chief coordinator, at the Zonal Transplant Coordination committee (ZTCC) said the donor, Vijay Maruti Kadam, who had served in the army for 17 years, passed away under tragic circumstances due to death by hanging.
