Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation, an NGO that has been working in the field of deceased organ donation for the past 18 years signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), UK in Chennai on Friday.
Haryana is fast emerging as a significant transplant state with many leading hospitals undertaking transplants. With this in mind, a first-of-its-kind meeting, 'Deceased Organ Donation Stakeholders Meeting of Haryana', was organized by Mohan Foundation on Friday in the city. Medanta, Artemis, Fortis, Paras and Alchemist are among the hospitals where transplants are done.
Heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, tissues including the cornea, skin, heart valves, bones, tendons. It takes all of five minutes to save a life (or many), by registering as an organ donor on the internet. The process is straightforward: there's a basic form to be filled with your name, age, blood type, contact details and which organs you'd like to donate when you die.
With the launch of a new website for organ donation, patients who require organs for transplantation can now register themselves online and avail timely treatment, said health minister Rajendra Rathore on Saturday. The minister launched a website for the cause by clicking the online site of the ‘Rajasthan Network for Organ Sharing’ http://www.rnos.org at a stakeholders’ meeting at the SMS Medical College auditorium in Jaipur.
S.Radhakrishnan, a 61 year old resident of NIT layout, was admitted at Organge City Hospital with stroke. Investigations revealed Thrombosis in brain arteries with a major territory infarct.
She had always wished to donate her organs after death. Never was she aware that death will catch her unexpectedly at a young age.
In the last six years, 530 families have come forward to donate organs in Tamil Nadu, despite their moments of grief, a top official of the cadaver transplant programme in the state said here on Saturday. While many of them are from humble backgrounds and had not even heard of organ donation earlier, it was their large heartedness which made them offer this help, Dr Amolorpavanathn, Coordinator of the programme said.
Unlike in western countries, obesity has never been a cause of concern for the people of India. Surprisingly, fatty liver is emerging as one of the primary causes of liver cirrhosis in the country. In the years to come, it will be the primary cause of liver cirrhosis in Kerala too, where the primary cause now is alcoholism, said Dr Christopher Barry, associate professor, Division of Solid Organ transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Rochester, New York.
Life simply doesn’t end after death, especially if we help someone survive with a part of us left lovingly behind, so that he or she could lead life a little longer. Organ donation, perhaps, is not a new concept. In mythology, we have examples that organ donation was prevalent even then.
The organ transplant network in Tamil Nadu was ten times more effective than the system being followed in the rest of India, said Christopher Barry, a liver transplant surgeon from New York, who is working with the Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network (MOHAN) Foundation, here on Saturday.
