This walkathon aimed at creating awareness on organ transplant is quite different, as it is being undertaken by a beneficiary himself. Kovvuru Ramesh Reddy, Chairman of Kovvuru Foundation, has embarked on a 215-km ‘padayatra’ from Proddatur in Kadapa district to the temple city of Tirupati to spread the message on organ transplant.
Over 3,300 Mindtree employees have "chosen their good" and are associating themselves with activities that also include donation of old clothes/toys/books, distribution of solar lanterns, caring for the elderly, and cleaning up the city.The do-gooders have identified a crusader for each of the causes, internally called individual social responsibility (ISR) champions whose responsibility is to muster support from socially conscious employees.
At 5 a.m. on Sunday morning, the route leading from Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital to Apollo Hospital on Greams Road was cleared to transport a heart and lung from a brain dead patient for transplantation.
Ramesh, a 22-year-old young man, was a migrant worker from Andhra Pradesh. He had come to Chennai with wife Kalarani in search of work. Kalarani was only 17 and they had married a year back. They found work at a con struction site on a daily wage and set up home on a pavement. On the night of July 12, 2010, it was pouring and the couple was looking for shelter. They decided to spend the night at a partially constructed building. As they entered the structure, a heavy piece of masonry fell on Ramesh's head.
Almost three years after the 2011 amendment to the Transplantation of Organs Act, 1994, which mandated various kinds of registries to track the organ transplantation system, the idea of a national registry is yet to take off. The rules to implement the amendments were framed in March this year.
Frenchwoman Marie Therese Hampart Zoumain and husband Henri were visiting their son, Sebestien, who works for a Gurgaon MNC and lives in Delhi. The family travelled extensively, visiting places like Jaipur and Agra. Little did anyone know that Marie's India trip would take such a turn. This March 13, an unconscious Marie was wheeled into Max Hospital.
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Sushant Kaushal, a bright young man of 20, died in a car crash on November 22, 2012. His family , although shattered, readily agreed to donate his organs after doctors and counsellors from Sir Gangaram Hospital approached them.
A large-scale awareness programme, central organ sharing registry, improved infrastructure within public hospitals for transplantation, is what will push up organ donation in the Capital. This has been stated in a survey report that was released recently in the city. The survey was commissioned in September 2013 by the Parashar Foundation, a non-government organisation based in Delhi, in partnership with the MOHAN Foundation.
Thirty-five years ago many patients used to buy blood because of a shortage of voluntary donors. Today, nearly all the blood used across India is received as replacement blood from relatives and as altruistic donations.
